I also appreciated that McLain was fair to Ernest Hemingway. Paula McLain paints a sympathetic picture of her protagonist, and from what I’ve read about her elsewhere, justifiably so. It was hard not to like Hadley Richardson. It is usually fascinating and enriching for me to read books written from an intelligent and sensitive woman’s perspective – it is always different from mine, and I appreciate the differences. We get to know and appreciate her by being inside her perspective, and we get to know and appreciate Ernest Hemingway as she perceived him. It is well written and offers a well-articulated interpretation of how Hadley Richardson felt, thought, experienced the world and her relationship with Ernest Hemingway. My Impressions: The Paris Wife is essentially a novelized autobiographical account of Hadley Richardson’s courtship and short marriage to Ernest Hemingway, and concludes at the end of their life together in Paris during the 1920s. A few of us also are reading The Sun Also Rises, the novel Hemingway wrote during his initial Paris period, while married to Hadley Richardson. Why this book: Selected by my literature reading group, along with Moveable Feast, Hemingway’s own version of life during the time described in The Paris Wife.
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