Paula McLain
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Portrays the love affair and marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Mowrer from their Chicago meeting in 1920 to their lives during the Jazz Age in Paris, but as Ernest struggles to find his literary voice, Hadley tries to define her role in their relationship as wife, friend, and muse.
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English
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"The bestselling author of The Paris Wife returns to the subject of Ernest Hemingway in a novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn--a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War and becomes drawn to the stories of ordinary...
Author
Publisher
Libranda
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
Hadley Richardson vivía en el Chicago de 1920 una existencia sin privaciones, pero alejada del amor y la felicidad. Hasta que conoció a Ernest Hemingway. Quedó cautivada por la energía y ambiciones que derrochaba. Su vida cambió para siempre. Después de un breve noviazgo, se convirtió en su primera esposa. Se trasladaron a París, en donde fueron ¿muy pobres, pero muy felices¿ frecuentando el círculo de artistas formado por Francis Scott...
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English
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In the long, hot Illinois summer of 1973, insecure, motherless Jamie falls under the dangerous spell of her older, more worldly cousin Fawn, who’s come to stay with Jamie and her uncle as penance for committing an “unmentionable act.”It is a time of awakenings and corruptions, of tragedy and loss, as Jamie slowly discovers the extent to which Fawn will use anything and anyone to further her own ends—and recognizes, perhaps too late, her own...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"From the New York times bestselling author of 'The Paris Wife' comes an atmospheric novel of intertwined fate and heart-wrenching suspense: A detective hiding away from the world. A series of disappearances that reach into her past. Can solving them help her heal? Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a...
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Deutsch
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"Eine Liebe vor der Kulisse des Zweiten Weltkrieges.
Meisterhaft inszeniert Paula McLain die stürmische Beziehung zwischen Ernest Hemingway und seiner dritten Frau Martha Gellhorn. Als Martha sich haltlos in den zehn Jahre älteren Ernest verliebt, ist sie gerade achtundzwanzig Jahre alt, hat aber schon die halbe Welt bereist. Später wird sie eine der berühmtesten Kriegsreporterinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts sein. Hals über Kopf folgt sie Hemingway...
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Deutsch
Description
Wenn die Sterne verlöschen ...
Anna Hart weiß selbst, dass sie vor ihrem Unglück davonläuft. Eigentlich ist sie Ermittlerin, Expertin darin, verschwundene Kinder zu finden. Doch nun ist ihrem eigenen Kind etwas passiert, und sie zieht sich an den Ort zurück, in dem sie aufgewachsen ist und glücklich war - zumindest für einige Zeit, als ihr Adoptivvater sich fürsorglich um sie kümmerte. Doch kaum ist sie angekommen, erfährt sie, dass ein...
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English
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This powerful and haunting memoir details the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s. As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next fourteen years moving from foster home to foster home. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of one of the most compelling memoirs in recent years-a book in the tradition of...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • “A total departure for the author of The Paris Wife, McLain’s emotionally intense and exceptionally well-written thriller entwines its fictional crime with real cases.”—People (Book of the Week)
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE • “The kind of heart-pounding...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE • “The kind of heart-pounding...