Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife - A Compelling Literary Biography of the Woman Who Inspired an American Icon (P.S.)

ISBN: 0062108824

Author: Diliberto, Gioia

Condition: Used

A bittersweet modern lovestory [that] reads as easily as a novel. -VogueFascinating. . . . A detailed,grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left. -NewsdayHadley Richardson and ErnestHemingway were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties, the center of anexpatriate community boasting the likes of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, GertrudeStein and Alice B. Toklas, and James and Nora Joyce. In this haunting accountof the young Hemingways, Gioia Diliberto explores their passionate courtship,their family life in Paris with baby Bumby, and their thrilling, adventurousrelationship-a literary love story scarred by Hadleys loss of the only copy ofHemingways first novel and ultimately destroyed by a devastating mnage trois on the French Riviera.Compelling,illuminating, poignant, and deeply insightful, Paris Without End providesa rare, intimate glimpse of the writer who so fully captured the Americanimagination and the remarkable woman who inspired his passion and his art-theonly woman Hemingway never stopped loving.