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I have read mixed reviews (e.g.\u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/20\/books\/review\/book-review-the-paris-wife-by-paula-mclain.html<\/a>) of\u00a0The Paris Wife<\/em> but I have to say I am enjoying every page of it.<\/p>\n

First of all, consider the title. \u00a0If you have chosen to be a wife, why not be one in Paris?! \u00a0Now I understand the French can be notoriously rude to Americans, especially if we try to engage them with our horrible version of their delicate language. And of course French husbands are famously unfaithful, can have\u00a0prominent\u00a0noses and smell too strongly of Bleu De Channel.\u00a0But you can’t beat other aspects of the parisian wife lifestyle. \u00a0Intimate sidewalk cafes, evening strolls by the Seine, the art museums, the shopping, the adorable tiny cars, wine at lunch, the\u00a0shopping, wine at teatime, the shopping, the food, the wine, the shopping. \u00a0You get the picture.<\/p>\n

And beyond the romance of imagining yourself as a Paris wife, this Paris wife is married to Ernest Hemingway! Now here again, he may have been no dreamboat to live with and perhaps a little egotistical and for sure a man’s man who loved more than a few fingers of scotch, beautiful women and indulged an insatiable lust for adventure. Aside from that, the author, Paula McLain, paints an intimate portrait of the world Hemingway and his wife Hadley inhabited in Paris in the early 1920’s.\u00a0Carousing\u00a0with\u00a0the fabled “Lost Generation” in the City of Light, Ernest and Hadley are part of quite a\u00a0crowd– Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott and Zelda. \u00a0I mean, really. \u00a0Can you imagine it? \u00a0All these young, ambitious, struggling, soon-to-be-famous artists come to life on the page and play out the stories that put us to sleep in eighth grade English but entice and haunt us as adults.<\/p>\n

Pick it up. \u00a0Especially in hardback. \u00a0As you can see it has a great cover, but it’s hard to beat what lies beneath it.<\/p>\n

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I have read mixed reviews (e.g.\u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/20\/books\/review\/book-review-the-paris-wife-by-paula-mclain.html) of\u00a0The Paris Wife but I have to say I am enjoying every page of it. First of all, consider the title. \u00a0If you have chosen to be a wife, why not be one in Paris?! \u00a0Now I understand the French can be notoriously rude to Americans, especially if we …<\/p>\n

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