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Hi, Bookies: The final section of the book opens with Hadley and Bumby vacationing in Schruns, while Ernest travels to New York City to meet with his publisher—among other things, he gets a hefty advance for The Sun Also Rises. When he gets back, he encourages Hadley to take a trip to the Loire Valley with her friends Pauline and […]

Hi, Bookies: This quarter of the book sees the beginning of the end for Hem and Hadley, sadly. The couple moves to Toronto to have their baby. Their plan is to stay a year while Ernest makes some money editing at the Star. He, of course, locks horns with his boss and ultimately decides he needs to be writing…in Paris. […]

Hello, Bookies: Spoiler alert: I’m about to sum up what’s happened in the second quarter of the book, so if you haven’t reached this point, read no further. The second quarter finds Hem and Hadley newly in Paris. Practically upon arrival, it seems, they meet Ezra Pound and his wife, and Gertrude Stein and her companion. Hadley describes feeling left […]

Hi, Bookies: I do hope you are all loving this book as much as I am—or at least finding it as interesting. I realize that it is a work of historical fiction and, as such, is just one person’s interpretation of what might have happened between Hadley and Ernest, but it’s so romantic, isn’t it? It also humanizes someone who […]

My name is Didi Gluck, and I’m the health and beauty director of Real Simple. I am so excited to be reading The Paris Wife—for several reasons. First, I love Ernest Hemingway. My father modeled himself after Hemingway (like “Papa,” my dad enjoyed hunting, fishing, wine, bullfights, and all things macho), so he’s always had a special place in my […]