Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The Paris Wife

I've been reading The Paris Wife. It is about Hadley, Ernest Hemingway's first wife.
She was 29 when they married, he was 21.

I love this book. It reminds me a lot of A Moveable Feast by Hemingway. Coincidentally they are written about the same time frame. I'm not sure what exactly I love so much about them.

I think I would have loved Paris in 20's. The sheer Bohemian lifestyle that they lived there. Hanging out with up-and-coming artists and writers, expatriates living in Paris.

Maybe I've just romanticized Paris so much that anything I read about it makes me long to go even more.

I love that the author has given Hadley a voice. I love this book.

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