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03793aam a22003858i 4500 001 F92FBE42B18111ECB5BF500951ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220401010114 008 220228s2022 nyuaf e b 001 0beng 020 $a 1643138839 (hardcover) 020 $a 9781643138831 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1300216771 040 $a WCFLS $b eng $c WCFLS $d YDX $d BDX $d SILO 082 04 $a 813.52 $2 23 100 1 $a Christian, Timothy J., $e author. 245 10 $a Hemingway's widow : $b the life and legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway / $c Timothy Christian. 250 $a First Pegasus Books cloth edition. 260 $a New York, NY : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2022. 263 $a 202206 300 $a xxii, 506 pages , 24 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "A stunning portrait of the complicated woman who was Ernest Hemingway's fourth wife, 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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic formats. 600 10 $a Hemingway, Mary Welsh, $d 1908-1986. 600 10 $a Hemingway, Mary Welsh, $d 1908-1986 $x Marriage. 600 10 $a Hemingway, Ernest, $d 1899-1961 $x Marriage. 650 0 $a Women journalists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Journalists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Authors' spouses $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220902015655.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220401030444.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F92FBE42B18111ECB5BF500951ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search