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Mrs. Hemingway

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Mrs. Hemingway

By: Naomi Wood
Narrated by: Kate Reading
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The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story….

Summer, 1926. Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Hadley, take refuge from the blazing heat of Paris in a villa in the south of France. They swim and play bridge, and drink gin with abandon. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadley's best friend. She is also Ernest's lover. Hadley is the first Mrs. Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be the last. Each Mrs. Hemingway thought their love would last forever; each one was wrong.

Narrated by Hemingway's four wives - Hadley, Fife, Martha, and Mary - and peopled with members of the fabled "Lost Generation" - including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald - Mrs. Hemingway paints a complex portrait of the man behind the legend and the women behind the man, a riveting tale of passion, love, and heartbreak.

©2014 Naomi Wood (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Biographical Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Romance France Marriage Summer Heartfelt
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Fascinating Perspectives • Historical Insights • Great Narration • Complex Relationships • Beautiful Storytelling
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Great book gives lots of history on Hemingway and lifestyle
Highly recommended book and is told in such a way to respect the wives

Great book

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The content of the book itself is brilliant, as is the narration. The prose has a similar feel to Hemingway's, and the narrator captures the feeling the book intends perfectly.

Amazing

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A wonderful read, delivered expertly. I will look for more by Ms Wood and Kate Reading

MORE LIKE THIS PLEASE

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Very interesting to hear his bio from his wives & ex-wives point of view. Great narration too.

Four Wives of Hemingway

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I found myself Googling so often to see more about the Hemingway family. Very interesting; such a different time! Liked it very much!

Very interesting book

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I’ve read The Paris Wife and Love in Ruin. They left me wanting to know more about the women Hemingway loved. This novel did not disappoint. An accurate depiction of the wives and mistresses of Hemingway. The crossovers between the books made me chuckle as you would only pick up on them if you read all these novels. Great read

The Wives

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It was very interesting to learn more about Hemingway’s wives. I will read more Hemingway.

Love the craziness of Hemingway

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Fascinating stories of Hemingway's 4 wives, as well as world events! I enjoyed immensely and highly recommend!

Great history

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Naomi Wood singlehandedly leaps over the competition with a sequel to The Paris Wife (which was by Paula McLain) that also covers the other wives of Ernest Hemingway although in a shorter format by dedicating roughly ¼ of the book each to Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn and Mary Welsh.

The book is told in succeeding first-person accounts by each of the women, usually at the time of the end of each of their marriages (in Mary Welsh's case after Hemingway's passing) with flashbacks to earlier happier times. Naomi Wood does a great job at capturing the main character of each woman and Kate Reading does an equally fine job at narrating for each of them. Martha Gellhorn comes across as perhaps a bit softer toned than she was reputed to be in real life and Mary Welsh's section is light on the difficulties of the final years, but that just leaves room for future historical fiction accounts. There is at least one completely fictional character that is used to slightly tie the 4 stories together - a book collector / profiteer named Harry Cuzzemano makes cameo appearances throughout while seeking rare Hemingway editions or manuscripts. Perhaps this is a commentary on the greater Hemingway industry which seems to be never ending with the ongoing publication of 20 volumes of letters and new "restored" editions of each of the writer's own works being slowly released as well (A Farewell to Arms & A Moveable Feast so far, and The Sun Also Rises this summer 2014).

There does now seem to be a whole new burgeoning genre of Hemingway inspired historical fiction, whether it is macho stuff like Dan Simmons "The Crook Factory" or the more romance inclined Erika Robuck's "Hemingway's Girl" (where 2nd wife Pauline Pfeiffer plays a large role). As a Hemingway nut I can only say the more the merrier.

The Paris, Key West, Spanish and Idaho Wives

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at Ernest Hemingway from a new perspective. Beautiful writing. Beautiful storytelling. interesting times and well-described.

I recommend this book.

Fascinating Look

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