Ernest’s plan to travel to Spain to cover the civil war there ignites Martha’s sense of purpose and adventure. The reader is not fooled despite their banal, Hemingway-esque dialogue. Having been burned by an affair with a married man, Martha insists that her deepening friendship with Ernest is purely platonic. Ernest is 10 years older and still married to second wife Pauline. But when she meets Hemingway in late 1936 in a Key West bar at the beginning of this novel, she's in her late 20s and has just published her first book. A journalist who landed with the troops at Omaha Beach and the author of books of fiction and nonfiction as well as a play, Gellhorn is considered one of the most important war correspondents of the 20th century. Having focused on Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson, in The Paris Wife (2011), McLain now turns to his third, writer Martha Gellhorn.Īs she did with Hadley and with Beryl Markham in Circling the Sun (2015), McLain closely follows previously published biographical material to create her novel.
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