***"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 Cu
The girl in Hemingway's studio: a novel
✍ Scribed by Carolyn Grady
- Publisher
- BookBaby
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 293 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
After winning the Florida Keys Flash Fiction Contest, Alexis Strong Caldwell is heading to Key West to finish her manuscript in Ernest Hemingway's studio. Alexis hopes she will find a creative vibe in the room where Hemingway produced some of his most famous work during the 1930s. Her father, Arthur, persuades Alexis to allow her sister to accompany her to Florida, hoping the experience will help the siblings resolve their differences. Instead her sister, Charlotte, entangles Alexis in adventures that disconnect rather than unify their fragile relationship. Meanwhile, Alexis's husband, Marcus and his brother discover their recently inherited mine is located in an area that is rich in rare-earth elements desperately needed in the manufacturing of high-tech products. Unable to finance the mining project themselves, the brothers are ill prepared when they become involved in the world of smooth-talking investors and a criminal element that threatens their marriages, their mother's...
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