Paris Without End, Gioia Diliberto
Paris Without End, Gioia Diliberto
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Paris Without End
The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife

Author: Gioia Diliberto

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 14 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/21/2020

Synopsis

Hemingway's creative influences for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea came not only from his famous hunting trips, his liaisons in Cuba, or his relationships with Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and other Lost Generation writers. During Hemingway's period of greatest literary foment, his most seminal relationship was with Hadley Richardson, his first wife.

In Paris Without End, acclaimed author Gioia Diliberto, biographer of Jane Addams and Brenda Frazier, delivers a gripping, novelistic exploration of Hadley's personality and her role in Hemingway's life, finally unclouding our view of Hemingway's relationship with the one woman he never stopped loving.

About Gioia Diliberto

Gioia Diliberto is a journalist, biographer, and novelist. She is the author of the biographies Paris without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife, A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams, and Debutante: The Story of Brenda Frazier and the novels I Am Madame X and The Collection. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Smithsonian, and Vanity Fair, and she is a visiting lecturer in writing at the Savannah College of Art and Design and DePaul University. She lives in Chicago.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jill

Why should we, as readers, be the slightest bit interested in Hadley Richardson, Hemingway’s first wife? One might make a convincing case – and Gioia Diliberto certainly does – that Hadley is the archetype for all the women in Hemingway’s literature: Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises, Catherine Bark......more

Goodreads review by Edward

I was going to read THE PARIS WIFE, recommended by several friends, when I saw this recent biography and decided to read it instead. It reads like a novel and now I’m wondering if there’s any point in reading the fictional PARIS WIFE which I understand hews closely to the facts. I say it reads like a......more

Goodreads review by Maggie

I read The Paris Wife about a year ago, after several recommendations from friends, and I hated it. I thought Hadley was an annoying, high-maintenance, deeply troubled martyr and I still can't believe I finished the book. I was curious how closely the novelized version of Hadley's life followed Hadl......more

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