âA bittersweet modern love story [that] reads as easily as a novel.â âVogue
âFascinating. . . . A detailed, grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left.â âNewsday
Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties, the center of an expatriate community boasting the likes of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and James and Nora Joyce. In this haunting account of the young Hemingways, Gioia Diliberto explores their passionate courtship, their family life in Paris with baby Bumby, and their thrilling, adventurous relationshipâa literary love story scarred by Hadleyâs loss of the only copy of Hemingwayâs first novel and ultimately destroyed by a devastating mĂ©nage Ă trois on the French Riviera.
Compelling, illuminating, poignant, and deeply insightful, Paris Without End provides a rare, intimate glimpse of the writer who so fully captured the American imagination and the remarkable woman who inspired his passion and his artâthe only woman Hemingway never stopped loving.