The Sun Also Rises
A brilliant profile of the Lost Generation, Hemingway's first bestseller captures life among the expatriates on Paris's Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation. Reprint.
A brilliant profile of the Lost Generation, Hemingway's first bestseller captures life among the expatriates on Paris's Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation. Reprint.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780743297332
Publish date: 17-10-2006
Publisher: Scribner
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Fiction
I read it since it was recommended by Pat Conroy in My Reading Life. I found it to be very sad and much like the end of a bender where the momentary joy was quickly swallowed by the gaping hole of the soul. I can see the gravity it has for Conroy.
Rory: I will give the painful Ernest Hemingway another shot. Yes I promise. -Gilmore Girls, A-Tisket, A-TasketI tried Hemingway again (my first Hemingway was The Old Man and the Sea in eighth grade... the meeting wasn't pretty). Not my cup of tea.