jenche 's review for:

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

4.0

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I loved this a lot, I love Hemingway and lost gens and I thought the writing was sharp and clear and lovely and idk I really did like this book, especially having read some of Hemingway's short stories (some of the nick adams ones, on the quay at Smyrna), a moveable feast, and the sun also rises. watching the Pamplona trip unfold and seeing the similarities between it and tsar was also great; this is a good book if you like Hemingway and are familiar with his work and probably still a good book if you're neither of those things

you get kind of annoyed with Hadley in the midst of the divorce because she doesn't really stick up for herself but she does kind of eventually and the epilogue is well done, also

tbh I kind of just want Paula McLain to write books about all the lost gens now like where's my book about Alice and Gertrude??? Zelda and Scott??? she should just make a lost gen historical fiction series