Love and Ruin
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful novel of the stormy marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, a fiercely independent woman who became one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century from the author of The Paris Wife and...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful novel of the stormy marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, a fiercely independent woman who became one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century from the author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go DarkRomance, infidelity, war Paula McLain s powerhouse novel has it all. Glamour
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post New York Public Library Bloomberg Real Simple
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 people caught in the devastating conflict. It s her chance to prove herself a worthy journalist in a field dominated by men. There she also finds herself unexpectedly and unwillingly falling in love with Ernest Hemingway, a man on his way to becoming a legend.
On the eve of World War II, and set against the turbulent backdrops of Madrid and Cuba, Martha and Ernest s relationship and careers ignite. But when Ernest publishes the biggest literary success of his career, For Whom the Bell Tolls, they are no longer equals, and Martha must forge a path as her own woman and writer.
Heralded by Ann Patchett as the new star of historical fiction, Paula McLain brings Gellhorn s story richly to life and captures her as a heroine for the ages: a woman who will risk absolutely everything to find her own voice.
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Near dawn on July 13, 1936, as three assassins scaled a high garden wall in Tenerife hoping to catch the band of armed guards unaware, I was asleep in a tiny room in Stuttgart, waiting for my life to begin.The killers were professionals. They moved without sound, slinking up hidden ropes, never looking at one another or thinking of anything but the next moment s action. On cat s feet, they fell from the wall to the ground, passing invisibly through the shadows and creeping softly toward their target.
It was like a symphony unfolding. Their plan was to take the guards one by one by slitting their throats. Then they would force the door beyond the veranda and climb the marble steps to the little girl s room. María del Carmen, she was called, ten years old and sweetly sleeping until a rope would gag her quickly and pillows would crush over her small face. Then to the master bedroom, where they would dispatch the last few guards. Everything would be done without firing a single shot. The general and his beautiful wife wouldn t need to stir even a little in their bed beyond the door, their bodies still as a painting by Velázquez, until death came.
All of this had been set in motion, but then one of the guards turned suddenly and machine-gun fire cut the night. The assassins scattered, barely escaping with their lives. The general woke at the sound of gunfire, but after hearing from his men what had happened, he only stumbled back to bed. Attempts on his life were not rare and particularly not just then, when he was on the cusp of the thing he d waited for, as a tiger waits, just out of sight.
Five days later, the planned uprising in Morocco began. The general broadcast a message urging all military officers to join the insurgence and overthrow the Spanish government. Then he sent his wife and daughter into hiding in France, and was taken through the streets of Tenerife, where already the shooting had begun, to a waiting de
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Havilland Dragon Rapide. He wore civilian clothes and dark glasses and, by way of further disguise, had shaved off his familiar mustache.
It was nothing after all this for the trim little plane to take flight, ferrying its passenger to North Africa, where he would prepare the army that would soon overtake mainland Spain. On the way, he donned his uniform, crisp khaki with a red-and-gold belted sash. And just like that, he became General Francisco Franco, newly escaped from exile. Ready to start a war the whole world would be forced to finish.
And what was I doing then, at twenty-seven, when Franco made his play for Spain? Standing in a deepening shadow, as everyone was, whether they realized it or not.
German troops had recently marched into the Rhineland, and the Nuremberg Laws were being enforced, banning Jews from marrying or bearing children with pure Reich citizens, restricting them from public schools and certain businesses, and essentially branding them, along with Afro-Germans and Gypsies, enemies of the Volksgemeinschaft, so the Nazis could protect their Aryan blood in a race-based state. It was all so shocking and so absolutely wrong. And yet you could almost pretend it wasn t happening by going on with your life and thinking it had nothing to do with you.
I had lived in Paris on and off for years, trying to be a writer and also falling in love a lot, without being terribly successful at either. I was dying to write a character as glittering and sharp as Lady Brett from The Sun Also Rises, but since I couldn t, I would settle for trying to be her. I wore long skirts with knit sweaters and sat in cafés smoking too much and crinkling my eyes and saying, Hello, darling, to near strangers. I ordered cocktails that were far too strong for me, and laughed at things that
It was nothing after all this for the trim little plane to take flight, ferrying its passenger to North Africa, where he would prepare the army that would soon overtake mainland Spain. On the way, he donned his uniform, crisp khaki with a red-and-gold belted sash. And just like that, he became General Francisco Franco, newly escaped from exile. Ready to start a war the whole world would be forced to finish.
And what was I doing then, at twenty-seven, when Franco made his play for Spain? Standing in a deepening shadow, as everyone was, whether they realized it or not.
German troops had recently marched into the Rhineland, and the Nuremberg Laws were being enforced, banning Jews from marrying or bearing children with pure Reich citizens, restricting them from public schools and certain businesses, and essentially branding them, along with Afro-Germans and Gypsies, enemies of the Volksgemeinschaft, so the Nazis could protect their Aryan blood in a race-based state. It was all so shocking and so absolutely wrong. And yet you could almost pretend it wasn t happening by going on with your life and thinking it had nothing to do with you.
I had lived in Paris on and off for years, trying to be a writer and also falling in love a lot, without being terribly successful at either. I was dying to write a character as glittering and sharp as Lady Brett from The Sun Also Rises, but since I couldn t, I would settle for trying to be her. I wore long skirts with knit sweaters and sat in cafés smoking too much and crinkling my eyes and saying, Hello, darling, to near strangers. I ordered cocktails that were far too strong for me, and laughed at things that
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Autoren-Porträt von Paula McLain
Paula McLain is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Love and Ruin, Circling the Sun, The Paris Wife, and A Ticket to Ride, the memoir Like Family: Growing Up in Other People s Houses, and two collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, O: The Oprah Magazine, Town & Country, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. She lives in Ohio with her family.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paula McLain
- 2018, Internationale Ausgabe, 400 Seiten, Masse: 15,4 x 23,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Ballantine Books
- ISBN-10: 1524798827
- ISBN-13: 9781524798826
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.04.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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Wonderfully evocative. . . . [Paula] McLain s fans will not be disappointed; this is historical fiction at its best, and today s female readers will be encouraged by Martha, who refuses to be silenced or limited in a time that was harshly repressive for women. Library Journal (starred review)McLain has perfected her dramatic and lyrical approach to biographical fiction, lacing Marty s ardent inner life into electrifying descriptions of place and action. . . . McLain brings forth the deepest, most ringing elements of both love and ruin, the two poles of Marty and Ernest s tempestuous relationship, a ferocious contest between two brilliant, willful, and intrepid writers. McLain s fast-moving, richly insightful, heart-wrenching, and sumptuously written tale pays exhilarating homage to its truly exceptional and significant inspiration. Booklist (starred review)
If you loved McLain s 2011 blockbuster The Paris Wife, you re sure to adore her new novel, which is just as good, if not better. AARP
McLain strikingly depicts Martha Gellhorn s burgeoning career as a writer and war correspondent during the years of her affair with and marriage to Ernest Hemingway. . . . Gellhorn emerges as a fierce trailblazer every bit Hemingway s equal in this thrilling book. Publishers Weekly
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