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Beautiful Exile

The Life of Martha Gellhorn

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Beautiful Exile

By: Carl Rollyson
Narrated by: John Stamper
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Martha Gellhorn died in February 1998, just shy of her 90th birthday. Well before her death, she had become a legend. She reported on wars from Spain in the 1930s to Panama in the 1980s, and her travel books have become classics. Her marriage to Ernest Hemingway and affairs with legendary lovers like H. G. Wells, and her relationship with two presidents, Roosevelt and Kennedy, reflect her campaigns against tyranny and deprivation, and her outrage at the corruption and cruelty of modern governments. This controversial and acclaimed biography portrays a vibrant and troubled woman who never tired of fighting for causes she considered just.

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I would recommend the story in book form not audible. The narrator's voice is very bland. That combined with the fact that Gellhorn is not a sympathetic character/person is not a good match for an audible experience.

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Gellhorn's life and accomplishments

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I don’t recall when I “discovered” Martha Gellhorn by randomly picking up Travels with Myself and Another and I was captivated … I have now read it three times, the last an audiobook due to failing eyes. After the PBS Hemingway series last year, I wanted to know her full boography (not just as “the third wife of….”), but there is a dearth of those, and only this one in audio form. Thankfully it was absolutely, splendidly researched and presented to untangle the most faacinating, complicated, maddening human I have ever encountered - her life could mot have been made up! But as the epilogue says, she could only blame herself that her books never sold well and have gone in and out of print, and she eschewed biographies because she claimed biographers of many famed lives she was involved with got their facts totally wrong. Therefore, she never cultivated a loyal following that would have kept her in the public eye and duscourse.
Do yourself a favor by making her acquaintance with this outstanding tome, THEN read Travels with Myself and Another to complete your own discovery. You can thank me later.

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