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Sun Also Rises

By Ernest Hemingway

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| Audio Cassette | 9785553665616

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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."

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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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