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Paula McLain on the First Mrs. Ernest Hemingway
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It has been said that behind every great man is a great woman.
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Elizabeth "Hadley" Richardson was Ernest Hemingway's great woman. To many, she is known simply as "the first wife," but as we discover in Paula McLain's newest novel, The Paris Wife (Ballantine Books) Richardson, a small-town "Victorian" woman, was an essential ingredient in Hemingway's writing career.
In this mesmerizing and helluva-good-time novel (pack your bags now, you're going to want to hop a flight to Paris, or just check out this photo tour), McLain inhabits Richardson's voice and guides us from Chicago—Richardson and Hemingway's initial stomping ground—to the place where their life together really begins: Paris.
Through McLain's lyrical and exhilarating writing, we experience absinthe-soaked nights in Paris cafés surrounded by the City of Light's most iconic expatriates: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgera