![]() ![]() Wood opens the story in 1926 in Antibes as things are coming to a head: “Everything, now, is done à trois.” This is Hadley, of course, referring to the way in which wealthy, bohemian socialite Fife infiltrates the Hemingway ménage. Wood is a more than able writer and eschews the temptation to mimic the great man’s language (unlike The Paris Wife, which at points echoes A Moveable Feast). ![]() In this, her second fictional work, Wood projects herself into the psychological realities of the four Hemingway wives, Hadley, Pauline Pfeiffer (“Fife”), Martha Gellhorn, and Mary Welsh. Hemingway, a novel by British author Naomi Wood. The latest foray into Hemingway excavation is Mrs. In the case of Hendrickson, the biography had a refreshing angle, even if much of the criticism of the writer’s personal shortcomings felt familiar, while The Paris Wife assumed the voice of first wife Hadley Richardson in an imagined memoir. Recent volumes such as Hemingway’s Boat by Paul Hendrickson and the novel The Paris Wife by Paula McLain plunge once again into his notorious past. It’s been fifty-three years since Ernest Hemingway died, but society can’t seem to stop picking over his corpse. ![]()
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