![]() ![]() ![]() She’s a maverick, a young woman not afraid to break the rules (e.g., sleep with married men) and break away from “Women’s Pages” fluff as a journalist. If love and war are two of the greatest themes in literature, they’re both here as McLain fashions her portrait of “Marty” Gellhorn. ( The War Correspondent Wife doesn’t exactly sing.) And anyone familiar with Hemingway’s biography knows that “Ruin” is in store for this marriage as well, for there was one last wife to come (Mary Welsh, also a war correspondent). Love and Ruin is a lovely, lyrical departure of a title. 1, the neglected Hadley Richardson, did in McLain’s 2011 best-selling book-club fave, The Paris Wife. Gellhorn narrates this historical novel, as Hemingway Wife No. The towering ego and allure of the great American writer is once again on chest-puffing display in McLain’s latest novel, Love and Ruin (Ballantine, 376 pp., ★★★ out of four), in which Ernest Hemingway's third wife - war correspondent and author Martha Gellhorn - shares center stage. Paula McLain can’t let "Papa" Hemingway go. ![]()
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