num_pages: 247
description: The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation. This poignantly beautiful story of a group of American and English expatriates in Paris on an excursion to Pamplona represents a dramatic step forward for Hemingway's evolving style. Featuring Left Bank Paris in the 1920s and brutally realistic descriptions of bullfighting in Spain, the story is about the flamboyant Lady Brett Ashley and the hapless Jake Barnes. In an age of moral bankrupcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illustions, this is the Lost Generation.
language: English
title: The Sun Also Rises
titlecomplete: The Sun Also Rises
characters: Bill Gorton, Michael Campbell, Brett Ashley, Jake Barnes, Robert Cohn, Pedro Romero
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, School, Literary Fiction, Novels, Spain, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 430935
places: Madrid, Pamplona, Spain, France, Paris, San Sebastián, Basque Country
publisher: Collier Books