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.