96. Succumb to Lust, Then to Love

Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Meg Waite Clayton comes a riveting novel based on one of the most volatile and intoxicating real-life love affairs of the twentieth century.

Key West, 1936. Headstrong, accomplished journalist Martha Gellhorn is confident with words but less so with men when she meets disheveled literary titan Ernest Hemingway in a dive bar. Their friendship—forged over writing, talk, and family dinners—flourishes into something undeniable in Madrid while they’re covering the Spanish Civil War.

Martha reveres him. The very married Hemingway is taken with Martha—her beauty, her ambition, and her fearless spirit. And as Hemingway tells her, the most powerful love stories are always set against the fury of war. The risks are so much greater. They’re made for each other.

With their romance unfolding as they travel the globe, Martha establishes herself as one of the world’s foremost war correspondents, and Hemingway begins the novel that will win him the Nobel Prize for Literature. Beautiful Exiles is a stirring story of lovers and rivals, of the breathless attraction to power and fame, and of one woman—ahead of her time—claiming her own identity from the wreckage of love.

There's a difference between love and lust. That's why we have one-night-stand, or friends with benefit. The problem is, when we first meet someone, there'll always be only lust. If lust goes so strong it can last longer, then finally it becomes love because you grow together, and you grow accustomed to each other, and you feel comfortable being near each other. Now, to create that lust at first sight, only the pretty ones get picked the most. Nobody will pick someone who's unattractive, and disgusting, and ugly. To win a date, you should look pretty, and to lose a date, you should look disappointing. How about me? I'm unattractive, disgusting, disappointing person without even trying. So, everybody will feel they get rejected automatically. That's why I have to explain to you this time, I never wanna reject you, Superman... I always love you with all my heart, Superman

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Book Recommendation:

• Meg Waite Clayton - Beautiful Exiles