The Garden of Eden - Ernest Hemingway - book

Upon learning of the success of his second novel, David Bourne, a young American writer spending his honeymoon on the Mediterranean coast, is eager to get back to writing. Jealous of his work, his wife, Catherine, introduces him to a stranger, Marita, and sets about creating a strange erotic relationship that traps them in the triangle of an unbearable closed door. How far can love for another go, the desire to know and assimilate to them? Does art have everything to lose or everything to gain from this excessive passion?