Absolutely brilliant. No other words at the moment. Going to write a full review for Goodreads and my blog sometime within the week. 
 Edit: Took me longer than expected, but here's the gist of my review. Find the full review at my blog!: http://cristinaguarino.livejournal.co... 
 This is one of those novels that I feel every writer should read. It's motivating not only in its accounts of Hemingway's inspiring (and slightly insane) dedication to his work, but in the fantastic writing by McLain, herself. In fact, one of the things I noticed while reading was that, while writing about Hemingway and his peers--Pound, Fitzgerald, Stein--McLain seemed to write like them. Her writing took on a similar voice as if she were channeling the writers, themselves, despite their varying writing styles.