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"A bittersweet modern love story [that] reads as easily as a novel." -Vogue
"Fascinating. . . . A detailed, grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left." -Newsday
Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties, the center of an expatriate community boasting the likes of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and James and Nora Joyce. In this haunting account of the young...
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A witty look at the complex and fascinating but tumultuous marriages of five well-known figures in the literary world, including British theater critic Kenneth Tynan, and authors Roald Dahl and Kingsley Amis.
The history of wives is largely one of silence, resilience, and forbearance. Toss in celebrity, male privilege, ruthless ambition, narcissism, and a few more factors, and it's easy to understand why the marriages of many famous writers have...
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Harper Collins Publishers
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[2023]
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A witty look inside the tumultuous marriages of five famous writers, focusing on the "wives" of either gender, that illuminates the creative process as well as the role of money, fame, and power in these complex, fascinating relationships.