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
Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped cement Ernest Hemingway's status as the one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. A poignant look at disillusionment and angst, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most indelible characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley.
The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is set during an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. The story lays bare themes of alienation and disenchanted youth.
Hemingway's first novel 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.
