![]() But some of us, a very few in the end, bet on marriage against the odds.” Marriage it was, and from there McLain’s story becomes one of battling those long odds. ![]() He, of course, was smitten she was too, charmed by “his grin, elastic and devastating.” “To keep you from thinking,” McLain’s ( A Ticket to Ride, 2008, etc.) narrator puts it, “there was liquor, an ocean’s worth at least, all the usual vices and plenty of rope to hang yourself with. Hadley, literary history tells us, was Hemingway’s rescuing angel eight years older than he, she was the woman who lifted him from his postwar depression as a wounded veteran and helped restore his battered confidence. An imaginative, elegantly written look inside the marriage of Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson. ![]()
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