Hemingway's Girl

ISBN-13: 9780451237880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 326 str.

Erika Robuck

Opis

From the bestselling author of The House of Hawthorne comes a historical fiction novel that gives life to the women behind novelist Ernest Hemingway in a "robust, tender story of love, grief, and survival on Key West in the 1930s."*

In Depression-era Key West, Mariella Bennet, the daughter of an American fisherman and a Cuban woman, knows hunger. Her struggle to support her family following her father's death leads her to a bar and bordello, where she bets on a risky boxing match...and attracts the interest of two men: world-famous writer, Ernest Hemingway, and Gavin Murray, one of the WWI veterans who are laboring to build the Overseas Highway.

When Mariella is hired as a maid by Hemingway's second wife, Pauline, she enters a rarified world of lavish, celebrity-filled dinner parties and elaborate off-island excursions. As she becomes caught up in the tensions and excesses of the Hemingway household, the attentions of the larger-than-life writer become a dangerous temptation...even as straightforward Gavin Murray draws her back to what matters most. Will she cross an invisible line with the volatile Hemingway, or find a way to claim her own dreams? As a massive hurricane bears down on Key West, Mariella faces some harsh truths...and the possibility of losing everything she loves.

Recenzje

Robuck s breathtaking alchemy is to put us inside the world of Hemingway and his wife Pauline....Dazzlingly written and impossibly moving, this novel is a supernova. Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Beautiful World

You ll love this [novel]...Addictive. *Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of The Stormchasers

Richly realized...Readers will delight in the complex relationships and vivid setting. Publishers Weekly

A total reading pleasure ultimately a story about seeking and finding the best in ourselves and in others. Historical Novel Society, Editor's Choice

I fell in love with Robuck s Hemingway and with the fiery Mariella Bennet, but what I loved most was the novel's message: that we can inspire each other to be better human beings. Ann Napolitano, author of A Good Hard Look

Evokes a setting of the greatest fascination...This is assured and richly enjoyable storytelling. Margaret Leroy, author of The Soldier's Wife

Brings to vivid life the captivating and volatile world of a literary legend. Kristina McMorris, author of The Edge of Lost

An inspiring story of heartache and renewal. Readers will be sure to enjoy this ode to a literary icon. Sarah McCoy, bestselling author of The Mapmaker's Children

Colorful, atmospheric, and a pleasure to plunge into. Joseph Wallace, author of Diamond Ruby

O autorze

Erika Robuck is the national bestselling author of The House of Hawthorne, Fallen Beauty, Call Me Zelda, Hemingway s Girl, and Receive Me Falling. She is a contributor to the fiction blog Writer Unboxed, and she maintains her own blog, Muse. She is a member of the Hawthorne Society, the Hemingway Society, the Historical Novel Society, and the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband and three sons.