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  • Hemingway's Widow

  • The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway
  • By: Tim Christian
  • Narrated by: Tim Christian
  • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Hemingway's Widow

By: Tim Christian
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Mary Welsh, a celebrated wartime journalist during the London Blitz and the liberation of Paris, meets Ernest Hemingway in May 1944. He becomes so infatuated with Mary that he asks her to marry him the third time they meet—although they are married to other people. Eventually, she succumbs to Ernest's campaign, and in the last days of the war joined him at his estate in Cuba.

Through Mary's eyes, we see Ernest Hemingway in a fresh light. Their turbulent marriage survives his cruelty and abuse, perhaps because of their sexual compatibility and her essential contribution to his writing. She reads and types his work each day—and makes plot suggestions. She becomes crucial to his work and he depends upon her critical reading of his work to know if he has it right. We watch as they travel to the ski country of the Dolomites, commute to Harry's Bar in Venice; and attend bullfights in Pamplona and Madrid. We see Ernest fall in love with a teenaged Italian countess and wonder at Mary's tolerance of the affair. We witness Ernest's sad decline and Mary's efforts to avoid the stigma of suicide by claiming his death was an accident.

Her story is one of an opinionated woman who smokes Camels, drinks gin, swears like a man, sings like Edith Piaf, loves passionately, and experiments with gender fluidity in her extraordinary life with Ernest.

©2022 Timothy Christian (P)2023 Tantor
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Superb!

I was quickly immersed in the intoxicating atmosphere that Tim Christian creates with his writing and his voice. Through this book, I finally I got to live in Paris in the 1940s! Mary, Marlene, Simone, Paul and Ernest were just one table over as I sipped on my chartreuse and drank in this recording in just two sessions.

I raise my glass to the author!

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I loved the way the author sought the truth rather than some preconceived notion.

This book is a journey in truth . Mary couldn't have been brought to light under a better author. The Good and the bad were given equal weight. I loved evey word and I'm a more informed reader from reading this wonderful book.

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A gift for all Hemingway fans.

Tim clarifies and balances the many Hemingway books that preceded his biography of Hemingway’s Widow, Mary. I’m so grateful for his work and recording of the Audible. Absolutely stunning. Thanks Tim.

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