The only authorized edition of Ernest Hemingway's first novel.
"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
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--presented by the Hemingway
family with illuminating supplementary material from the Hemingway
Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library.
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. 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).
The Hemingway Library Edition commemorates Hemingway's classic novel
with a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, the author's sole
surviving son, and an introduction by Sean Hemingway, grandson of the
author. Hemingway considered the extensive rewriting that he did to
shape his first novel the most difficult job of his life. Early drafts,
deleted passages, and possible titles included in this new edition
elucidate how the author achieved his first great literary masterpiece.
