Hemingway’s Widow : The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway 1st Edition by Timothy Christian 9781643138800 1643138804

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• ISBN 10: 1643138804
• ISBN 13: 9781643138800
• Author:  Timothy Christian

A stunning portrait of the complicated woman who becomes Ernest Hemingway’s fourth wife, tracing her adventures before she meets Ernest, exploring the tumultuous years of their marriage, and evoking her merry widowhood as she shapes Hemingway’s literary legacy. Mary Welsh, a celebrated wartime journalist during the London Blitz and the liberation of Paris, meets Ernest Hemingway in May 1944. He becomes so infatuated with Mary that he asks her to marry him the third time they meet—although they are married to other people.  Eventually, she succumbs to Ernest’s campaign, and in the last days of the war joined him at his estate in Cuba. Through Mary’s eyes, we see Ernest Hemingway in a fresh light.  Their turbulent marriage survives his cruelty and abuse, perhaps because of their sexual compatibility and her essential contribution to his writing.  She reads and types his work each day—and makes plot suggestions.  She becomes crucial to his work and he depends upon her critical reading of his work to know if he has it right. We watch the Hemingways as they travel to the ski country of the Dolomites, commute to Harry’s Bar in Venice; attend bullfights in Pamplona and Madrid; go on safari in Kenya in the thick of the Mau Mau Rebellion; and fish the blue waters of the gulf stream off Cuba in Ernest’s beloved boat Pilar.  We see Ernest fall in love with a teenaged Italian countess and wonder at Mary’s tolerance of the affair.  We witness Ernest’s sad decline and Mary’s efforts to avoid the stigma of suicide by claiming his death was an accident.  In the years following Ernest’s death, Mary devotes herself to his literary legacy, negotiating with Castro to reclaim Ernest’s manuscripts from Cuba, publishing one-third of his work posthumously.  She supervises Carlos Baker’s biography of Ernest, sues A. E. Hotchner to try and prevent him from telling the story of Ernest’s mental decline, and spends years writing her memoir in her penthouse overlooking the New York skyline. Her story is one of an opinionated woman who smokes Camels, drinks gin, swears like a man, sings like Edith Piaf, loves passionately, and experiments with gender fluidity in her extraordinary life with Ernest.  This true story reads like a novel—and the reader will be hard pressed not to fall for Mary.

Table contents:

Chapter One: Chatting with Lords
Chapter Two: You May Sleep Quietly
Chapter Three: It Would Be Just Like That Bloody Hitler to Try His Invasion on Christmas
Chapter Four: A Glamorous, Globe-Trotting War Correspondent
Chapter Five: A Deft, Tricky Way with Men
Chapter Six: Beautiful as a May Fly
Chapter Seven: Railway Trains Across the Sky
Chapter Eight: She Was Mad for Shaw
Chapter Nine: I Cannot Understand this Chest-beating
Chapter Ten: We Lived in Those Days Far Beyond the Usual Reach of Our Senses
Chapter Eleven: I Also am Committed, Horse, Foot, and Guns
Chapter Twelve: Irwin, Are You Going to Marry Me?
Chapter Thirteen: I Could Never be a Simone de Beauvoir to Papa’s Sartre
Chapter Fourteen: A Complicated Piece of Machinery
Chapter Fifteen: This is Like Being a High-Priced Whore
Chapter Sixteen: I Bleached My Hair Lighter to Please Him
Chapter Seventeen: How Did a Beat-up Old Bastard Like You Get Such a Lovely Girl as That?
Chapter Eighteen: That Was a Day of Triumph for Me
Chapter Nineteen: Platinum-Blonde at Torcello
Chapter Twenty: He Has Become the Most Important Part of Me
Chapter Twenty-One: Ernest Taunts Me with This
Chapter Twenty-Two: It Lays Me Open, Raw, and Bleeding
Chapter Twenty-Three: People Are Dying That Never Died Before
Chapter Twenty-Four: Every Real Work of Art Exhales Symbols and Allegories
Chapter Twenty-Five: Safety Off, Hold Steady, Squeeze
Chapter Twenty-Six: A Plague Began to Descend Upon Us
Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Swedish Thing
Chapter Twenty-Eight: She Knows How to be Lazy as a Cat
Chapter Twenty-Nine: If You Have a Message, Call the Western Union
Chapter Thirty: I Wished for a Room of My Own
Chapter Thirty-One: Smashed Like an Eggshell
Chapter Thirty-Two: Lots of Problems but We Will Solve Them All
Chapter Thirty-Three: A Vegetable Life
Chapter Thirty-Four: Good Night, My Kitten
Chapter Thirty-Five: The Sun Also Ariseth
Chapter Thirty-Six: This in Some Incredible Way Was an Accident
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Picking up the Pieces
Chapter Thirty-Eight: A “Vastly Different Outcome”
Chapter Thirty-Nine: You Are Rated as Politically Unreliable
Chapter Forty: A Moveable Feast
Chapter Forty-One: Defending Papa’s Reputation
Chapter Forty-Two: No, He Shot Himself. Shot Himself. Just That.
Chapter Forty-Three: Who the Hell is He Writing About?
Chapter Forty-Four: I Never Especially Liked the Killing
Chapter Forty-Five: Have Success in Something Instead of Talking About Equality!
Chapter Forty-Six: Ernest’s Gift Was Joy
Chapter Forty-Seven: How It Was
Chapter Forty-Eight: It’s a Beautiful Place of Bougainvillea and Poinsettia, but the Heart of it is Gone
Chapter Forty-Nine: Life is Ruthless

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