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Collection: Adult Fiction
Call Number: F McLain
Author: McLain, Paula,
Title: Love and Ruin :
Remainder of title: a novel /
Summary, etc. note: "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 people caught in the devastating conflict. It's the adventure she's been looking for and her chance to prove herself a worthy journalist in a field dominated by men. But she also finds herself unexpectedly--and uncontrollably--falling in love with Hemingway, a man on his way to becoming a legend. In the shadow of the impending Second World War, and set against the turbulent backdrops of Madrid and Cuba, Martha and Ernest's relationship and their professional 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 make a choice: surrender to the confining demands of being a famous man's wife or risk losing Ernest by forging a path as her own woman and writer. It is a dilemma that could force her to break his heart, and hers. 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"--

International Standard Book Number: 9781101967386 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9781101967409 (ebook)
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: n-us---
Classification number: PS3563.C383495
Item number: L69 2018
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 813/.54
Source of number: bisacsh
Classification number: FIC014000
Classification number: FIC019000
Classification number: FIC041000
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Paula McLain.
Edition statement: First edition.
Place of publication: New York, NY
Name of publisher: Ballantine Books
Date of publication: 2018
Projected publication date: 1805
: New York :
: Ballantine Books,
: 2018.
Extent: 385 p.; 24 cm.
: rdacontent
: text
: txt
: rdamedia
: unmediated
: n
: rdacarrier
: volume
: nc
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: B & T 04/30/2018
Purchase price: $ 28.00
Personal name: Hemingway, Ernest,
Personal name: Gellhorn, Martha,
Dates associated with a name: 1899-1961
Dates associated with a name: 1908-1998
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
General subdivision: Marriage
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Subject: War correspondents
Subject: Journalists
Subject: Women journalists
Subject: Authors' spouses
Subject: Authors
Subject: FICTION / Historical.
Subject: FICTION / Literary.
Subject: FICTION / Biographical.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Geographic subdivision: United States
Geographic subdivision: United States
Source of term: gsafd
Source of term: gsafd
Genre/form data or focus term: Biographical fiction.
Genre/form data or focus term: Historical fiction.
: Acquire
: 1 shelf copy
: policy default
: xk15 2018-03-06 (telework)
: xk15 2018-03-06 ONIX (telework) to CIP
: Dylan Julian; phone: 212-782-9598; email: djulian@penguinrandomhouse.com; bc: cip@randomhouse.com

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