Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife, Paperback

"A bittersweetmodern love storythat] reads as easily as a novel." --Vogue

Hemingway'screative influences for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell toArms, and The Old Man and the Sea came not only from his famoushunting trips, his liaisons in Cuba, or his relationships with Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce and other Lost Generation writers. DuringHemingway's period of greatest literary foment, his most seminal relationshipwas with Hadley Richardson, his first wife. In Paris Without End, acclaimed author Gioia Diliberto, biographer of Jane Addams and Brenda Frazier, delivers a gripping, novelisticexploration of Hadley's personality and her role in Hemingway's life, finally unclouding our view of Hemingway's relationship with theone woman he never stopped loving.