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Yours, For Probably Always
Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949
By: Janet Somerville
Narrated by: Ellen Barkin
Length: 19 hours 57 minutes

“Martha Gellhorn was a remarkable woman and writer who bore constant, impassioned witness to the twentieth century as it unfolded. We are indebted to Janet Somerville for this valuable selection of Gellhorn’s letters, representing an exceptionally eventful period of her long and productive life. Ellen Barkin’s reading adds another dimension to the words on the page, bringing the letters to life--capturing the rich array of their moods and tones and Gellhorn’s always sharp observations of the world around her.” --Sandra Spanier, The Hemingway Letters Project

"Ellen Barkin, her voice, husky as the first glimmer of sunrise, draws you inexorably into Gellhorn's always compelling stories, given intimate context in the seemingly artless craft of Somerville's prose." --Barry Callaghan, author of ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE

“Barkin narrates this collection of Gellhorn's letters with the precision of an expert archivist. Her contralto voice creates a bygone vocal persona that echoes the 1930s-40s, the years featured in this audiobook. Barkin carefully presents Gellhorn's selected correspondence to dozens of international luminaries, such as Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, Ingrid Bergman, and, of course, Ernest Hemingway, Gellhorn's husband of five years.” --AudioFile magazine

Description:
Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters, often several each day. Today, those letters provide an intimate and revealing look at the lives and loves of the people who wrote them. When the author is a brilliant writer who lived an exciting, eventful life, the letters are especially interesting.

Martha Gellhorn was a strong-willed, self-made, modern woman whose journalism, and life, were widely influential at the time and cleared a path for women who came after her. An ardent anti-fascist, she abhorred "objectivity shit" and wrote about real people doing real things with intelligence and passion. She is most famous, to her enduring exasperation, as Ernest Hemingway's third wife. Long after their divorce, her short tenure as "Mrs. Hemingway" from 1940 to 1945 invariably eclipsed her writing and, consequently, she never received her full due.

Gellhorn's work and personal life attracted a disparate cadre of political and celebrity friends, among them, Sylvia Beach, Ingrid Bergman, Leonard Bernstein, Norman Bethune, Robert Capa, Charlie Chaplin, Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Chiang, Colette, Gary Cooper, John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Maxwell Perkins, Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Orson Welles, H.G. Wells -- the people who made history in her time and beyond.

Yours, for Probably Always is a curated collection of letters between Gellhorn and the extraordinary personalities that were her correspondents in the most interesting time of her life. Through these letters and the author's contextual narrative, the book covers Gellhorn's life and work, including her time reporting for Harry Hopkins and America's Federal Emergency Relief Administration in the 1930s, her newspaper and magazine reportage during the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Vietnam War, and her relationships with Hemingway and General James M. Gavin late in the war, and her many lovers and affairs.

*Includes a downloadable PDF with appendix material

Yours, For Probably Always by Janet Somerville (Audiobook Excerpt)

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