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File Size: 1369 KB
Print Length: 350 pages
Publisher: Berkley; Original edition (September 4, 2012)
Publication Date: September 4, 2012
Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B007T8R2E8
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The time is 1935 and the main character is nineteen-year-old Mariella Bennet, a young woman trying to keep her family afloat after the death of her father, a struggling fisherman in Key West. She gambles, steals, and does whatever odd jobs she can for the rent money to keep her depressed mother and two little sisters in their small house. Eventually, Mariella gets a job as a maid in the Hemingway household due to her chance meetings with EMH around town and his attraction for her and her adeptness at standing up to the already iconic writer.The prologue begins in 1961 a couple of days after Hemingway's death. Mariella is introduced with graying hair and is fishing with her son Jake on their boat Corrida. Of course her son was named after Jake Barnes from The Sun Also Rises and her boat's name is homage to Hemingway's love of bullfighting. As an Hemingway aficionado, these details are the things I enjoyed about Ms. Robuck's tale. The prologue also has Mariella thinking to herself that her son is just like his father. I was hooked then, wanting to know if Ms. Robuck weaves her tale making Hemingway the boy's father.I highlighted many good passages and quotes from the book. Here are a few:"She remembered when Hemingway had planted a banyan at his house and told her its parasitic roots were like human desire. At the time she's thought it romantic. She hadn't understood his warning.""That night at the rum bar, Mariella watched Papa while she smoked. He still complained about the locals, but spent more time entertaining his audience with tales of the fish that grew more dramatic with each retelling. As she stubbed out her third cigarette, she acknowledged her increasing disdain for him. His endless boasting around the rich men; his foul, racist language; his complaints about critics; his overblown stories of game hunting in Africa; his flirtation with Jinny. The way he got off on Mariella's attraction for him around his wife. It diminished him. He used to seem so authentic, but lately she found him replaced by a sunburned, overfed legend of his own making. She felt strongly that he was in character, forever trying to hold up his image for the men around him.""He looked like a bull struck by a sword at a bullfight, emblazoned with anger and ready to maul.""Mariella looked at the people in the room and loved them deeply. In a rush, she felt the physical melancholy of vacation's end settle over her. Its shadow fell over everyone in the room. She knew all these people would start leaving, and they would have to go back to work, and she would be without Gavin during the week, and hurricane season would rush into full swing. Instead of the joy and expectation of time left on holiday, she felt the dread of numbered days, and even though she missed her family greatly, she knew that these people would never again be together, like this, on an island at the edge of the world."I appreciated Ms. Robuck's research and her historical accuracy. The main characters were there, including Hemingway's good friends Charles and Lorine Thompson and John and Katy Dos Passos, his wife, Pauline, his kids Bumby, Patrick, and Gregory, Ada the nanny, Toby the caretaker, and Grant and Jane Mason. All were portrayed as I have read about them again and again. Ms. Robuck also added her own characters: Gavin, the World War I vet with whom Mariella falls in love, Mariella's Cuban mother Eva, her sisters Estelle and Lulu, John, another veteran who had lost his legs at the Argonne, Nicholas the neighbor, and others.Another aspect of this book I appreciated was Ms. Robuck's honest portrayal of Hemingway. Through Mariella and others, she exposes his darker sides, as well as his kindness and generosity and genuine love of his community. We see his humor, intelligence, and physical prowess, but also we see his need for praise, his inflated ego, his callousness at times, and his rationalization of bad behavior. The character that never gets much sympathy is poor Pauline, but she does have some redeeming qualities in the end. We see how her relationship with Hemingway could have slowly deteriorated and how she seemed to have no real sense of self. But there is so much we can never know about Pauline since she died suddenly, 10 years before Hemingway committed suicide.I had forgotten about the hurricane that hit the Keys in 1935, bringing the most devastation to the upper keys. The novel reminded me of how tragic this hurricane was for the islands and how Hemingway wrote an article about the governmental neglect of the veterans that were working on the railroad at the time.Ms. Robuck brought the story full circle in her epilogue. Letters were how this story ended--letters between Mariella and Hemingway--just like the thousands of letters sent back and forth between Hemingway and his friends and family his entire life.
Robuck is becoming one of my guilty pleasures...almost. The problem is when the truth is sacrificed to develop story line. I know that this is sometimes necessary when writing a piece of fiction, and I do have to remind myself of that fact while I am reading (especially as I need to put them into different compartments in my brain). Having said that, the beauty of the writing is that the writer is able to take that which is known and create scenarios for explaining that which we do not know-- it is left to the judgment of the reader to decide if this is plausible or not. On more than one occasion I found myself questioning what I know of Hemingway from the works of others and trying to believe what Robuck had written, and I just couldn't fathom his character responding that way. The story is developed through the eyes of a young girl, Mariella, and just as in "Call Me Zelda", the life of this narrator becomes just as important as the larger-than-life person she interacts with. In fact, I would say that Mariella's story is more interesting and has greater depth. At times I questioned many of Mariella's actions, mainly in regard to her age. Although near the end of the book I had to remind myself that even though the author treats her as an adult, she really is not. It is easier to see how Mariella could have developed an infatuation with Hemingway (especially as he encouraged it)...a young girl recovering from the loss of her father would have been vulnerable to the attentions of an intelligent, famous, older man. I also enjoyed the read because I could easily envision several of the spots in the Keys that are referenced--which was the main reason for purchasing it.
I expected to read about Hemingway's lifestyle in Key West. I was not disappointed.I expected to read about the lifestyle of the poor in Key West. I was not disappointed.What I did not expect was a very graphic description of the very first category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the US. I found this part of the book to be extremely interesting. I like the way the author brings to life a very violent storm and the politics surrounding the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935.
The only reason this book does not 5 stars in my opinion is that there were small inaccuracies regarding Key West. For instance, when Mariella looks out at sunset key (it was not sunset key when the story took place). However, these small inaccuracies did not take away from the story itself which was a fine and moving one. And other than these little mistakes in setting that only one that lives in the Keys would notice, the story did give the reader a very realistic picture of Key West in the days of Hemingway's residence on the island otherwise. Of course the action was all made up, but very plausible based on facts from the days. And of course, if you read of the Labor Day hurricane you will see that it was indeed as horrific as what was described here. A good read and one that any Hemingway aficionado will enjoy.
Wow, I did not expect to love this book. I thought it would be a trashy look at some fictional romance but it is a thoughtful and respectful look at EH. It also gets into the dynamics of fame, literature, the Depression and a failing marriage. Robuck did her homework. I have read everything published on and by EH and found her accurate.I read The Paris Wife and loved it. This book reminds me of that one, but set later in Hem's life and in the tropics. I have been to KW recently and can "see" the town she describes.I am not quite finished with this book but wanted to share my thoughts. This is a fun, smart book with sharp dialogue. You will like it even if you have never read one of EH's books. Enjoy!
Loved Erika Robuck's book, Hemingway's Girl! The historical fiction was delves into Ernest Hemingway's character! Looking forward to reading another book published by Erika Robuck!
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