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The Paris Wife

Paula McLain

Start date: September 1, 2011

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May 13, 2013 Wendy rated it liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, audiobooks

Fascinating time/place/people...underwhelming exploration thereof. After waffling between 2 and 3 stars, I settled on 3 stars because of the "fascinatings" listed above. However, I don't feel that the memoir-style or tedious prose added much illumination to Ernest and Hadley's relationship that I could not have gleaned from a straight-up biography. If anything, I feel like I understand Hadley less after reading The Paris Wife. To me, the purpose of a novel is to get at emotional truths about lif ...more

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Mar 01, 2011 Juniper rated it really liked it

Shelves: owned, 2013-books

i really enjoyed this novel. i feel like mclain did a great job giving voice to hadley hemingway. i recently read Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald - where ernest and hadley make an appearance - so it was cool having another writer's creative perspective on the couple. one particular setting/time is covered in detail in each novel, so that was interesting. especially since ernest featured more in 'Z' and, obviously, hadley's perspective was stronger in 'the paris wife'.

great escapist read. good sum ...more

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