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"The bestselling author of The Paris Wife returns to the subject of Ernest Hemingway in a novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn--a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War and becomes drawn to the stories of ordinary...

"Ernest Hemingway first visited Cuba in 1928, and the experience would change the course of his entire life. He settled in Cojimar--a tiny fishing village east of Havana--in 1940, and came to think of himself as Cuban. What he discovered there, a new world counterpart to his beloved Spain, provided him the material for the novel that would rescue his uncertain career. The Old Man and the Sea won him a Pulitzer Prize and, one year later, earned literature's...

Martin Sproale is a mild-mannered assistant postmaster who lives with his mother, and has only one unconventional hobby: he is obsessed with the life of Ernest Hemingway. When a slick upstart is appointed postmaster over his head, steals his girlfriend, and fires the elderly postal employees, Martin decides to stand up for himself the way Hemingway would, and plots his revenge. Martin Sproale, a mild-mannered postmaster obsessed with Ernest Hemingway,...

An account of Ernest Hemingway's adventures in journalism during World War II explores his missions with the RAF and French Resistance forces, his role in shaping key understandings about the war, and the impact of the war on his subsequent writings.

"A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe--a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century"--six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious...