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Hemingway's Girl Original edition
Erika Robuck
Hemingway's Girl Original edition
Erika Robuck
?She remembered when Hemingway had planted a banyan tree at his house and told her its parasitic roots were like human desire. At the time she?d thought it romantic. She hadn?t understood his warning.? In Depression-era Key West, Mariella Bennet, the daughter of an American fisherman and a Cuban woman, knows hunger. Her struggle to support her family following her father?s death leads her to a bar and bordello, where she bets on a risky boxing match...and attracts the interest of two men: world-famous writer, Ernest Hemingway, and Gavin Murray, one of the WWI veterans who are laboring to build the Overseas Highway. When Mariella is hired as a maid by Hemingway?s second wife, Pauline, she enters a rarified world of lavish, celebrity-filled dinner parties and elaborate off-island excursions. As she becomes caught up in the tensions and excesses of the Hemingway household, the attentions of the larger-than-life writer become a dangerous temptation...even as straightforward Gavin Murray draws her back to what matters most. Will she cross an invisible line with the volatile Hemingway, or find a way to claim her own dreams? As a massive hurricane bears down on Key West, Mariella faces some harsh truths...and the possibility of losing everything she loves.
352 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 4, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9780451237880 |
Publishers | Penguin Putnam Inc |
Pages | 352 |
Dimensions | 140 × 208 × 20 mm · 306 g |
Language | English |
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