The Paris Wife

"The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain follows the story of Hadley, who was Ernest Hemingway's first wife. I don't like Hemingway, I've always found his work rather boring and he seemed like kind of an ass. Even though this book is fiction, he doesn't come across looking any better here. I'm sure he was just an ass. Like Woody Allen's brilliant film "Midnight in Paris", McLain captures the time and place that was Paris in the 1920s, when artists and writers from America converged and made it their own. It's fun to imagine what it must have been like to live there during that time. It was an enjoyable read, and went surprisingly quickly, because it's not a light, fluffy type of book at all.