A collectible hardcover edition of Hemingway's classic novel of
post-war disillusionment--the emblematic novel of the Lost
Generation--featuring an introduction by Amor Towles, the
multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A
Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility
A Penguin Vitae Edition
It's the early 1920s in Paris, and Jake, a wounded World War I veteran
working as a journalist, is hopelessly in love with charismatic British
socialite Lady Brett Ashley. Brett, however, settles for no one: an
independent, liberated divorcée, all she wants out of life is a good
time. When Jake, Brett, and a crew of their fellow expatriate friends
travel to Spain to watch the bullfights, both passions and tensions
rise. Amid the flash and revelry of the fiesta, each of the men vies to
make Brett his own, until Brett's flirtation with a confident young
bullfighter ignites jealousies that set their group alight.
An indelible portrait of what Gertrude Stein called the Lost
Generation--the jaded, decadent youth who gave up trying to make sense
of a senseless world in the disaffected postwar era--The Sun Also
Rises, Ernest Hemingway's beloved first novel, is a masterpiece of
modernist literature and one of the finest examples of the distinctly
spare prose that would become his legacy to American letters.
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