He put an empty glass in fr I was sitting on the patio of a bar in Key West Florida.
*burp*” I put my hand over my glass “I read somewhere that it can cause hallucinations and nightmares. The bar was on the beach where there was lots of sand and water.
I was sitting on the patio of a bar in Key West Florida. When this book first hit the shelves, it was something brand new in literature, and writing was never the same again. It was something he learned as a newspaper writer for the Kansas City Star. There's not an unneeded adjective in the book, nor any interior monologues. That said, Hemingway's style was the real selling point, and still is. All the film noir heroes of the 40s are hard drinkers- all inspired by Hemingway, and much to the detriment of our society, with alcoholism running rampant from people's search for the romanticism of the bottle. From then on, most of his heros are hard drinkers, and indeed inspired many Americans to become hard drinkers. Hemingway, who'd spent the previous 5 years in Europe, was bringing a completely different ethos to American readers. Europe didn't have the puritan ethic, nor the hangups about sex and alcohol consumption America had. At the time of publication in 1926, the idea of people going off to drink, carouse and have sex was shocking to Calvin Coolidge's America, where alcohol prohibition was the law of the land. At the time of publication in 1926, the idea of people going off to drink, carouse and have sex was shoc …more One has to understand the milieu of the book. John Bailey One has to understand the milieu of the book. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.more It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. Th The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.
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