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The Paris wife : a novel / Paula McLain. |
| Authors: | McLain, Paula. |
| Call number: | FIC MCL |
| Publisher: | New York : Ballantine Books, 2011. |
| Publication date: | 2011. |
| Subject: |
Authors' spouses -- United States -- Fiction.
Authors, American -- France -- Fiction. Expatriate authors -- France -- Fiction. Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Marriage -- Fiction. Mowrer, Hadley Hemingway, 1891-1979 -- Fiction. Paris (France) -- Fiction. |
| Title: | The Paris wife : a novel / Paula McLain. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | 320 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Genre: | Biographical fiction. |
| ISBN: | 9780345521309 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0345521307 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| LCCN: | 2010037878 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1288992 |
| Bib No.: | 1288992 |