A witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues and narrow escapes of Gellhorn, one of America\'s most important war correspondents and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.
with razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War..
Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed other in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone.
She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt\'s secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together.
As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua.
Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt, writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford.
Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic.
A witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues and narrow escapes of Gellhorn, one of America\'s most important war correspondents and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway
