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Book Synopsis“Streamlined and impacting, Darla Worden’s Cockeyed Happy could be construed as a narrative of the author himself, a compelling account of Hemingway’s summers in Wyoming—and I can think of no finer compliment.”—Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries In March 1928, after the phenomenal success of
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway returned to the United States with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer—the stylish
Vogue editor and scorned "other woman" who would give up everything to be with him and, in the end, lose it all.
The couple fled Paris in the wake of the huge gossip storm about the American author's affair and abandonment of his wife and son. Escaping to Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains to write while Pauline recovered from the birth of their first child, he finished
A Farewell to Arms and fell in love with the land around him. Pauline soon joined him in Yellowstone and Jackson Hole.
In Cockeyed Happy Darla Worden tells the little-known story of Hemingway and Pauline during six summers from 1928 to 1939—from smitten newlywed to bored, restless husband and ultimately to philanderer as he falls in love with another woman once again.Table of ContentsMap of Wyoming
Part I: 1928
Part II: 1930
Part III: 1932
Part IV: 1936
Part V: 1938–1939
Epilogue: 1940
Success
Author’s Method
Acknowledgments
Credits
About the Author
Index
