Paula McLain is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Love and Ruin, Circling the Sun, The Paris Wife, and A Ticket to Ride, the memoir Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, and two collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, O: The Oprah Magazine, Town & Country, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. She lives in Ohio with her family.
"McLain smartly explores Hadley's ambivalence about her role as
supportive wife to a budding genius.... Women and book groups are
going to eat up this novel." --USA Today "By making the ordinary
come to life, McLain has written a beautiful portrait of being in
Paris in the glittering 1920s -- as a wife and one's own woman....
McLain's vivid, clear-voiced novel is a conjecture, an act of
imaginary autobiography on the part of the author. Yet her
biographical and geographical research is so deep, and her empathy
for the real Hadley Richardson so forthright (without being
intrusively femme partisan), that the account reads as very real
indeed." --Entertainment Weekly "Written much in the style of Nancy
Horan's Loving Frank ... Paula McLain's fictional account of
Hemingway's first marriage beautifully captures the sense of
despair and faint hope that pervaded the era and their marriage."
--Associated Press "Lyrical and exhilarating . . . McLain offers a
raw and fresh look at the prolific Hemingway. In this mesmerizing
and helluva-good-time novel, McLain inhabits Richardson's voice and
guides us from Chicago--Richardson and Hemingway's initial stomping
ground--to the place where their life together really begins:
Paris." --Elle
"McLain's vivid account of the couple's love affair and expat
adventures will leave you feeling sad yet dazzled." --Parade "Told
in the voice of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, The Paris Wife, by
Paula McLain, is a richly imagined portrait of bohemian 1920s
Paris, and of America literature's original bad boy." --Town &
Country "Novelist and memoirist Paula McLain traces the life of
Hadley Hemingway, first wife of Ernest Hemingway, in this evocative
novel set largely in Paris in the Jazz Age." --Christian Science
Monitor "McLain's novel not only gives Hadley a voice, but one that
seems authentic and admirable.... A certain amount of bravery is
required in writing a novel that channels a giant of American
literature. Yet McLain pulls it off convincingly, conveying
Hemingway's interior life and his profound struggles. She makes a
compelling case that Hadley was a crucial (and long-lasting)
influence on Hemingway's writing life: a partner as well as a
cheerleader. She also revisits, with remarkable detail, a singular
era in history, one that would produce some of the greatest
literary works of the 20th century." --Newsday
"Engrossing and heartbreaking.... McLain is masterful at mining
Hadley's confusion and pain, her crushing realization that she
cannot fight for a love that has already disappeared." --Cleveland
Plain Dealer
"A well-crafted novel ... Paula McLain is a master at creating
narratives that are so lively, they seem to leap from the printed
page." --Tucson Citizen "One of the most important books of this
year. McLain is a novelist to watch." --Naples Daily News "The
Paris Wife is mesmerizing. Hadley Hemingway's voice, lean and
lyrical, kept me in my seat, unable to take my eyes and ears away
from these young lovers. Paula McLain is a first-rate writer who
creates a world you don't want to leave. I loved this book."
--Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank
"After nearly a century, there is a reason that the Lost Generation
and Paris in the 1920's still fascinate. It was a unique
intersection of time and place, people and inspiration, romance and
intrigue, betrayal and tragedy. The Paris Wife brings that era to
life through the eyes of Hadley Richardson Hemingway, who steps out
of the shadows as the first wife of Ernest, and into the reader's
mind, as beautiful and as luminous as those extraordinary days in
Paris after the Great War." --Mary Chapin Carpenter, singer and
songwriter "Despite all that has been written about Hemingway by
others and by the man himself, the magic of The Paris Wife is that
this Hemingway and this Paris, as imagined by Paula McLain, ring so
true I felt as if I was eavesdropping on something new. As seen by
the sure and steady eye of his first wife, Hadley, here is the
spectacle of the man becoming the legend set against the bright
jazzed heat of Paris in the 20s. As much about life and how we try
and catch it as it is about love even as it vanishes, this is an
utterly absorbing novel." --Sarah Blake, New York Times bestselling
author of The Postmistress "McLain offers a vivid addition to the
complex-woman-behind-the-legendary-man genre, bringing Ernest
Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson, to life.... The
heart of the story--Ernest and Hadley's relationship--gets an
honest reckoning, most notably the waves of elation and despair
that pull them apart." --Publishers Weekly
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