She’d read his works, “greats” such as For Whom The Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea, in college and been unmoved, and anyway, she was more of an F. The 53-year-old, you see, never intended to write even one novel about the lionized American writer, let alone two. “But he really has, and my relationship with him is this thing to navigate.” “If you had told me at 20, or even 30, that Ernest Hemingway would change my life, I’d have said you were ridiculous,” McLain says emphatically over an Americano at a Toronto cafe.
Both are equally complicated, tempestuous and passionate entanglements. That’s not a typo: For just as much as this is a tale about Martha Gellhorn, pioneering war correspondent and third wife of Ernest Hemingway, it’s also a story of Paula McLain, bestselling author and unwitting medium to Ernest Hemingway.
There is a double double bind at the heart of Paula McLain’s new novel, Love and Ruin (Bond Street Books).
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