The Sun Also Rises
The Hemingway Library Edition
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Publisher Description
“The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost.” — The Wall Street Journal
Named one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
The Sun Also Rises is a classic example of Hemingway’s spare but powerful writing style. It celebrates the art and craft of Hemingway’s quintessential story of the Lost Generation.
A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley.
The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. The story lays bare themes of hedonism, alienation, disenchanted youth, and emasculation.
First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is “an absorbing, beautifully and tenderly absurd, heartbreaking narrative...a truly gripping story, told in lean, hard, athletic prose” (The New York Times).
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Ernest Hemingway’s celebrated novel about a group of thirtysomething expatriates living in Europe after World War I takes us on a stunning emotional journey. We’re introduced to newspaperman Jake Barnes and his community of American and British creatives and aristocrats in Paris. As the group makes their way to Spain to see the bullfights in Pamplona, Jake documents their escapades with a journalist’s acumen. Hemingway draws us in with punchy repartee and endless revelry—his flawed but relatable characters drink, party, drink some more, and wander the continent in search of purpose and a sense of home. He also captures the sense of disillusionment lurking behind the friends’ frivolous attitudes, reflecting the ripple effects of the Great War that shaped the so-called lost generation. Equal parts funny and tragic, The Sun Also Rises is a rousing call to live in the moment and a testament to the devastating consequences of war.
