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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



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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) *

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 5 October 2000
      ISBN-13 9780099285038
      978-0099285038
      ISBN-10 0099285037
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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



      Trade Review
      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) *

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