The Paris Wife
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I finished this book a while ago but needed to sort thru my feelings on it before I could write a review. The book was beautiful and wrenching. It broke my heart and I loved every moment of it. I went into this book decidedly anti-Hemmingway and somehow, despite his treatment of Hadley Richardson, he was humanized to me. He was flawed, childish, complicated, cruel. And he loved her and she him. And Hadley. I am fascinated by her. She is one of my favorite characters in a long while and to know she was real just makes her more compelling.
I've already told many people this. Read this book. It's worth the anger and tears.
Heartfelt account of the wife of one of the 20th Century's greatest writers. First person fiction, based upon true accounts. Historical fiction as well. So tender and haunting.
I read this for book club and enjoyed it. I felt sorry for Hemingway's first wife. I found his lifestyle to be unseemly and unsurprisingly, his behavior doomed their marriage.
This was not a book for me. Historical romance / train wrecks are not my thing. What detestable characters. As much as I admire some of the writers of that generation (Fitzgerald etc) I am so glad I didn't actually meet them. Hemingway especially, not so much the ‘tortured artist' as a raging alcoholic, adulterer and obvious male chauvinist. Hadley was a simpering doormat. Ugh!
