具體描述
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.
著者簡介
Author Paula McLain on The Paris Wife
Most of us know or think we know who Ernest Hemingway was -- a brilliant writer full of macho swagger, driven to take on huge feats of bravery and a pitcher or two of martinis -- before lunch. But beneath this man or myth, or some combination of the two, is another Hemingway, one we’ve never seen before. Hadley Richardson, Hemingway’s first wife, is the perfect person to reveal him to us -- and also to immerse us in the incredibly exciting and volatile world of Jazz-age Paris.
The idea to write in Hadley’s voice came to me as I was reading Hemingway’s memoir, A Moveable Feast, about his early years in Paris. In the final pages, he writes of Hadley, “I wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.” That line, and his portrayal of their marriage -- so tender and poignant and steeped in regret -- inspired me to search out biographies of Hadley, and then to research their brief and intense courtship and letters -- they wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages of delicious pages to another!
I couldn’t help but fall in love with Hadley, and through her eyes, with the young Ernest Hemingway. He was just twenty when they met, handsome and magnetic, passionate and sensitive and full of dreams. I was surprised at how much I liked and admired him -- and before I knew it, I was entirely swept away by their gripping love story.
I hope you will be as captivated by this remarkable couple as I am -- and by the fascinating world of Paris in the 20’s, the fast-living, ardent and tremendously driven Lost Generation.
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讀後感
I do not understand why this book received so many praises and attention that year. It is a good read. But you felt the limitation of a second rate writer everywhere. For all the important characters in that Paris era, the book basically represented them ...
評分I do not understand why this book received so many praises and attention that year. It is a good read. But you felt the limitation of a second rate writer everywhere. For all the important characters in that Paris era, the book basically represented them ...
評分I do not understand why this book received so many praises and attention that year. It is a good read. But you felt the limitation of a second rate writer everywhere. For all the important characters in that Paris era, the book basically represented them ...
評分I do not understand why this book received so many praises and attention that year. It is a good read. But you felt the limitation of a second rate writer everywhere. For all the important characters in that Paris era, the book basically represented them ...
評分I do not understand why this book received so many praises and attention that year. It is a good read. But you felt the limitation of a second rate writer everywhere. For all the important characters in that Paris era, the book basically represented them ...
用戶評價
"It was sometimes painful for me to think that to those who followed his life with interest, I was just the early wife, the Paris wife. But that was probably vanity, wanting to stand out in a long line of women. In truth, it didn't matter what others saw."
评分一本人物傳記小說,雖然作者強調說盡量依據事實進行創作,但仍然多多少少覺得有點太過軟瞭.我本身對海明威有點成見,一是他在作傢圈風評不好,二是參觀key west故居時也聽瞭不少rumour.不過倒的確是這種比較“作”的drama個性和人生纔可能孕育著一個能寫好作品的作傢吧.據說這本書也可以看作是hadley視覺的《流動的盛宴》.總體來說,作者語言風格我沒有很喜歡,有點太絮叨太婆媽,裏麵齣現瞭無數認識的不認識的人物,多數也是讓我咬牙切齒,特彆是一度憎恨海明威到一個點.不過冷靜一下想想,倒覺得this is life.還是多多少少有點感觸的,特彆是作為一個女人.不過還是不得不說,最喜歡的一個場景是菲茨傑拉德和他老婆zelda的齣場,還在great gatsby齣版前,想象一下那個畫麵都覺得像夢.
评分I was so much into this book.from a Hadly's view,i followed everything,so true while words sober, simple,clear but hidden lots of pain and feelings.
评分開頭又甜又膩，中間流水賬一樣，直到Pauline齣現，引發多米諾骨牌效應，纔略微有點意思瞭些；結束有些潦草，我很好奇Hadley是否找到瞭自己的獨立人格。還好，她又找到瞭一個solid，even & stillness的伴侶度過餘生。不是很明白Ernest無盡的不安全感從何而來。Bye Tatie.
评分看完以後覺得沒有很好，雖然描述的很真，但有些時候會混淆哪句對白是誰說的，然後看完以後隻覺得女主人公是個沒有多少特點的平凡的女人~
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