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Circling the sun

McLain, Paula. Book - 2015 Fiction / McLain, Paula, Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / McLain, Paula None on shelf 4 requests on 5 copies Community Rating: 4.2 out of 5

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"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. Her unconventional upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman with a fierce love of all things wild and an inherent understanding of nature's delicate balance. But even the wild child must grow up, and when everything Beryl knows and trusts dissolves, she is catapulted into a string of disastrous relationships. Beryl forges her own path as a horse trainer, and her uncommon style attracts the eye of the Happy Valley set, a decadent, bohemian community of European expats who also live and love by their own set of rules. But it's the ruggedly charismatic Denys Finch Hatton who ultimately helps Beryl navigate the uncharted territory of her own heart. The intensity of their love reveals Beryl's truest self and her fate: to fly. Set against the majestic landscape of early-twentieth-century Africa, McLain's powerful tale reveals the extraordinary adventures of a woman before her time, the exhilaration of freedom and its cost, and the tenacity of the human spirit. Praise for Paula McLain and The Paris Wife"McLain has brought Hadley [Hemingway] to life in a novel that begins in a rush of early love. A moving portrait of a woman slighted by history, a woman whose. story needed to be told."--The Boston Globe"The Paris Wife creates the kind of out-of-body reading experience that dedicated book lovers yearn for, nearly as good as reading Hemingway for the first time--and it doesn't get much better than that."--Minneapolis Star Tribune"Exquisitely evocative. This absorbing, illuminating book gives us an intimate view of a sympathetic and perceptive woman, the striving writer she married, the glittering and wounding Paris circle they were part of. McLain reinvents the story of Hadley and Ernest's romance with the lucid grace of a practiced poet."--The Seattle Times"A novel that's impossible to resist. It's all here, and it all feels real."--People"Powerful and devastating. McLain pulls off a delicate balancing act, making the macho Hemingway of myth a complex and sympathetic figure."--USA Today"A sweet love story with surprising emotional impact."--Chicago Sun-Times"-- Provided by publisher.

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Really good submitted by Lucy S on July 23, 2015, 10:18am I knew very little about Beryl Markham before reading this. A very interesting woman living in a very interesting setting. Fans of Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa will be in familiar territory.

Not all that thrilling, but still a good read. submitted by Kikumatsu97 on July 26, 2015, 7:59pm This is the fictionalized story of the life of Beryl Markham who was brought from England to Kenya as child, raised by her father after her mother abandoned her when she was around 4 years old. She had an unconventional upbringing, and played with the children of the Kipsigis tribe who shared her father's estate. Her love of horses led to her being a horse trainer, which was a rare profession for women back in those days.

Excellent historical fiction submitted by lizgiessner on June 25, 2023, 7:23am This is the story about the unusual and exciting life of a woman despite the atrocious social norms and barbaric conventions (colonialism!) of the time.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Ballantine Books, [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: 366 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780345534187

SUBJECTS
Markham, Beryl -- Fiction.
Women air pilots -- Africa -- Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
Kenya -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.