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Ballantine
March 2011
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Featuring: Ernest Hemingway; Hadley Hemingway
336 pages
ISBN: 0345521307
EAN: 9780345521309
Hardcover
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Fiction Family Life | Historical
A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The
Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a
love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest
Hemingway and his wife Hadley.
Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet
twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and
happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life
changes forever. Following a whirlwind courtship and
wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the
golden couple in a lively and volatile group—the fabled
“Lost Generation”—that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound,
and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Though deeply in love, the Hemingways are ill prepared
for the hard-drinking and fast-living life of Jazz Age
Paris, which hardly values traditional notions of family and
monogamy. Surrounded by beautiful women and competing egos,
Ernest struggles to find the voice that will earn him a
place in history, pouring all the richness and intensity of
his life with Hadley and their circle of friends into the
novel that will become The Sun Also Rises. Hadley,
meanwhile, strives to hold on to her sense of self as the
demands of life with Ernest grow costly and her roles as
wife, friend, and muse become more challenging. Despite
their extraordinary bond, they eventually find themselves
facing the ultimate crisis of their marriage—a deception
that will lead to the unraveling of everything they’ve
fought so hard for.
A heartbreaking portrayal of love and torn loyalty,
The Paris Wife is all the more poignant because we
know that, in the end, Hemingway wrote that he would rather
have died than fallen in love with anyone but Hadley.
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