DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Fiesta

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Should be back in stock very soon

This paperback is available in other editions too:

Fiesta cover

Discover Ernest Hemingway's most decadent novel

'He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing'

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the Bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman that he loves.

'Told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame' New York Times

'Remarkable, startling, disquieting' Spectator

Remarkable, startling, disquieting * Spectator *
Some of the finest and most restrained writing that this generation has produced * New York World *
Hemingway captures atmosphere by reticence and breathes life into his characters by pages left unsaid... It is American; it is literature; and it is a first novel by a genius * Evening News *
It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame . . . This novel is unquestionably one of the events of an unusually rich year in literature * New York Times (1926) *

ISBN: 9780099285038

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 18mm

Weight: 173g

240 pages