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The Paris Wife  - Carrington MacDuffie, Paula McLain
The Paris Wife 
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Format: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B008NXLJ92
Publisher: Random House Audio
Edition language: English
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debbiekrenzer
debbiekrenzer rated it
While I've never read a Hemingway book, I've always heard that he drank a lot and could be a hard man to get along with. I have seen his house in Key West and saw some of the bars he supposedly hung out in. I was rather taken back in the size of his house there. However, after reading this book, it ...
KatieMc
KatieMc rated it
2.0 Book club read and I ended up playing hookie
I really should have DNF'd this book. Putting aside my personal feelings and value judgments I have for Ernest Hemingway, the tone didn't come across as I would have expected. I really knew nothing of his (first) wife, but I would have expected EH to come across more broody and a mean drunk. Instead...
Party of Five
Party of Five rated it
4.0 The Paris Wife
This book took me longer to read than I wanted it to. While I enjoyed it while reading it, the story dragged on with day to day minutiae that it often became hard to tell time lines. In fact, so much was told of the day to day that I was surprised to find out in the end that they'd only been mar...
Carpe Librum
Carpe Librum rated it
3.0 The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Maybe I should have read more reviews or at least the Wikipedia entry for Ernest Hemingway before reading this. I admit that I knew little about him going into this, but I suppose that made it suspenseful at least, whereas I would have known that I'd find this story disturbing if I'd known what was ...
In Love of Books and Friendship
In Love of Books and Friendship rated it
4.0 The Paris Wife
I've always thought to live a life like Ernest Hemingway would be a dream. Living a life full of adventure with a carefree attitude, writing a book about it and having it published would be quite like heaven. In A Paris Wife, a fictional account of Hemingway's first wife Hadley Richardson we learn ...
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