Hemingway's girl

Robuck, Erika.

Large Print 2013

In Depression-era Key West, Mariella Bennet, 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 a bordello, where she attracts the interest of two men: world-famous writer Ernest Hemingway and Gavin Murray, a WWI veteran laboring on the Overseas Highway. Hired as a maid by Hemingway's second wife, Mariella enters a rarefied world of lavish parti...

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