The Paris wife
Subtitle: a novel
By: Paula McLain
Series: Random House reader's circle
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780345521316
Subjects: Authors' spouses; Marriage; Expatriate authors; American Authors; Fiction
Description: Meeting through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is intrigued by brash "beautiful boy" Ernest Hemingway, and after a brief courtship and small wedding, they take off for Paris, where Hadley makes a convincing transformation from an overprotected child to a game and brave young woman who puts up with impoverished living conditions and shattering loneliness to prop up her husband's career.
Notes: Includes a reader's guide.