Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 05/10/2000
ISBN: 9780099285038
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 170g
RRP: £8.99
If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, enjoy Ernest Hemingway's most decadent novel.
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.
'Remarkable, startling, disquieting' Spectator
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 05/10/2000
ISBN: 9780099285038
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 170g
RRP: £8.99
Remarkable, startling, disquieting
Some of the finest and most restrained writing that this generation has produced
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
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