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Loading... The Sun Also Rises (1926)by Ernest Hemingway
  
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Hemingway is the most toxically masculine person to ever live. (  ) Rachel_Cucinella | Apr 24, 2021 |  I love this book. It's one of my all-time favorites and I've read it every few years since I was in junior high school. The narrator, Jake Barnes, is an American reporter living in Paris in the 1920's. The book has a very loose plot that centers around his friends' lives as expatriates and their travel to Pamplona, Spain to watch the bullfighting matches during the Fiesta. Woven throughout the story is Jake's romantic interest in Lady Brett Ashley. He sits by and watches as she becomes involved with most of his friends but he knows they can never have a relationship. This is because Jake suffered a certain injury during the war and Brett is never satisfied and quickly discards men anyway. The book sums up the entire relationship in the last few lines when Brett states "We could have had such a damned good time together." and Jakes replies "Isn't it pretty to think so?" What I enjoy most about this book is the extreme detail that Hemingway provides in his description of settings and scenery. You have a sense of reading someone's travel journal. This is in direct contrast to his approach with dialogue, however. Here, he is very precise and minimalistic. Character interactions become almost stilted and robotic. However, the characters are "tight" most of the time and the writing mimics a stuporous dialect. This leads me to the one element that always takes me by surprise; the vast quantity of alcohol consumed by the characters. As they travel between cafes, restaurants and bars in the course of an evening, it's not uncommon for each to have drunk 3 or more bottles of wine and numerous cocktails; mainly whiskey and absinthe. If you've ever dreamed of dropping everything and leisurely traveling the world or are interested in fishing, boxing or bullfighting, then you'll enjoy this book. (  ) pmtracy | Mar 15, 2021 | Date approximate (  ) fmc712 | Feb 18, 2021 | I enjoyed this quite a bit more than the other Hemingway novel I read - everything feels more sharply drawn and whole. Weirdly, I actually wish there was more of it - the beginning and ending both feel kind of incomplete to me. (  ) skolastic | Feb 2, 2021 | I truly enjoyed this book a lot. And I really start to like Hemingways writing style and prose. Wonderful, great, amazing. I would say I enjoyed it even more than "A moveable feast". Recommended! ( ) gullevek | Dec 15, 2020 |
 No amount of analysis can convey the quality of "The Sun Also Rises." It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame. Mr. Hemingway knows how not only to make words be specific but how to arrange a collection of words which shall betray a great deal more than is to be found in the individual parts. It is magnificent writing, filled with that organic action which gives a compelling picture of character. This novel is unquestionably one of the events of an unusually rich year in literature. Belongs to Publisher SeriesIs contained inFive Novels: The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / To Have and Have Not / The Old Man and the Sea / For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms / For Whom The Bell Tolls / The Old Man and the Sea / The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (indirect) For Whom the Bell Tolls / The Snows of Kilimanjaro / Fiesta / The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber / Across the River and into the Trees / The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / For Whom the Bell Tolls / The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway Book-of-the-Month-Club Set of 6: A Farewell to Arms, A Moveable Feast, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast / For Whom the Bell Tolls / A Farewell to Arms / The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms / For Whom the Bell Tolls / The Sun Also Rises / Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway - Four Novels - Complete and Unabridged: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Hemmingway - The Sun Also Rises, a Farewell to Arms, to Have and Have Not, for Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway ContainsHas the adaptationInspiredHas as a student's study guide
A story of expatriate Americans and British living in Paris after the First World War. No library descriptions found. 
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