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  • The blurb on the back of my edition states "This is...the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation." In fact, every character in the book, from the impotent protagonist Barnes to the self-destructive femme fatale Brett, is lost in his or her o ... Continue

    The blurb on the back of my edition states "This is...the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation." In fact, every character in the book, from the impotent protagonist Barnes to the self-destructive femme fatale Brett, is lost in his or her own way. This is set against the backdrop of cosmopolitan joi de vivre (in France) and decadent hedonism (in Spain).

    

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  • Read in the Modern American Novel course I had as an undergraduate. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"

    

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THE SUN ALSO RISES is the story of expatriate Americans and British in Paris between the wars. Talented and cynical, left without illusions by a war that killed many of their contemporaries, they suffered a failure of purpose that Gertrude Stein identified and named "The Lost Generation."

Jake Barnes is a tragic hero, damaged beyond repair in the war. He has the bad luck to meet and fall in love with Brett Ashley, a beautiful young Englishwoman. Worse, she finds in Jake everything she ever wanted but now cannot have. It is a hopeless and compelling relationship, told without affectation or sentiment by a young author just reaching the height of his powers.

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