McLain, Paula. frey50

The Paris wife : a novel / Paula McLain. - 1st ed. - New York : Ballantine Books, 2011. - xii, 320 p. ; 25 cm.

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.

9780345521309 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 0345521307 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 9780345521323 (ebook) 0345521323 (ebook)

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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 --Marriage
Mowrer, Hadley Hemingway, 1891-


Authors' spouses--United States
Authors, American--France
Expatriate authors--France


Paris (France)



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