The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway’s famous first novel tracks the Lost Generation of the 1920s from the nightclubs of Paris to the bullfighting arenas of Spain.
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Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, exerted a lasting influence on fiction in English through his economical prose style that conceals more than it reveals. His first novel, published in 1926, is narrated by world-weary journalist Jake Barnes, who is burdened by a wound acquired in World War I and by his utterly hopeless love for the flamboyantly decadent Lady Brett Ashley. The Sun Also Rises is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their illusions in postwar Europe.
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| Weight | 284 g |
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| Dimensions | 203 × 132 × 34 mm |
| Author | |
| Publisher | Vintage Books |
| Imprint | Vintage Books |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 224 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | |Reprint |
| Dewey | 813.52 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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