The couple met in 1920, married a year later and set off for Paris, steeping themselves in bohemian culture. "His preoccupation with his work made me sharply aware that I had no passion of my own," Hadley says of their early days. In the novel's protagonist, Hadley Richardson, McLain reveals a resilient woman struggling to find herself in the shadow of her formidable husband. Although McLain adheres closely to biographies of the author, she strips away the mythic narrative to offer a more private and vulnerable side, and a vivid sense of his daily life. "The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain (author of the memoir "Like Family" and a novel, "A Ticket to Ride") is a fictionalized portrait of that marriage, which deteriorated shortly before Hemingway's debut novel, "The Sun Also Rises," was published in 1927. But they were preceded by Elizabeth, known as Hadley - the first wife of Ernest Hemingway. There was Pauline, then Martha, then Mary.
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