The Paris Wife: A Novel

540 Pages·2012·2.62 MB·English

ALSO BY PAULA MCLAIN
A Ticket to Ride
Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s
Houses: A Memoir

The Paris Wife is a work of historical fiction. Apart from the well-known
actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names,
characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s
imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to current events or
locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2011 by Paula McLain
Title-page photo copyright © 2006 Edwin Pijpe
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The
Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New
York.
BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House,
Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McLain, Paula.
The Paris wife : a novel / Paula McLain.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-52132-3
1. Hemingway, Ernest, 1899–1961—Marriage—Fiction. 2. Mowrer, Hadley
Hemingway, 1891– —Fiction. 3. Authors’ spouses—United States—
Fiction.
4. Authors, American—France—Fiction. 5. Expatriate authors—France—
Fiction.
6. Paris (France)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.C383495P37 2011
813′.54—dc22
2010037878
www.ballantinebooks.com
Jacket design: Anna Bauer
Jacket photograph: Kurt Hutton/Getty Images
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Contents
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-one
Chapter Twenty-two
Chapter Twenty-three
Chapter Twenty-four
Chapter Twenty-five
Chapter Twenty-six
Chapter Twenty-seven
Chapter Twenty-eight
Chapter Twenty-nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-one
Chapter Thirty-two
Chapter Thirty-three
Chapter Thirty-four
Chapter Thirty-five
Chapter Thirty-six
Chapter Thirty-seven
Chapter Thirty-seven
Chapter Thirty-eight
Chapter Thirty-nine
Chapter Forty
Chapter Forty-one
Chapter Forty-two
Chapter Forty-three
Chapter Forty-four
Chapter Forty-five
Chapter Forty-six
Chapter Forty-seven
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
Reader’s Group Guide
About the Author
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