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Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow: The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage
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It was the glittering intellectual world of 1920s Paris expatriates in which Pauline Pfeiffer, a writer for Vogue, met Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley among a circle of friends that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Dorothy Parker. Pauline grew close to Hadley but eventually forged a stronger bond with Hemingway himself; with her stylish looks and dedication to Hemingway's writing, Pauline became the source of "unbelievable happiness" for Hemingway and, by 1927, his second wife. Pauline was her husband's best editor and critic, and her wealthy family provided moral and financial support, including the conversion of an old barn to a dedicated writing studio at the family home in Piggott, Arkansas. The marriage lasted thirteen years, some of Hemingway's most productive, and the couple had two children. But the "unbelievable happiness" met with "final sorrow," as Hemingway wrote, and Pauline would be the second of Hemingway's four wives. Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow paints a full picture of Pauline and the role she played in Ernest Hemingway's becoming one of our greatest literary figures.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book was obviously exhaustively researched, but a bit painful to read because it is hundreds of pages of “they went here, they went there” with little bits of personal information sandwiched in between. Hawkins makes it pretty clear what kind of woman would give up her career and children and follow Hemingway around the world like a star-struck groupie. It was interesting to find out how the Pfeiffer family made the money which launched Hemingway’s career, and I liked the first-hand accounts from people who met the couple during this time – I just wish there had been more of them.
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