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Fiesta

The Sun Also Rises
By Ernest Hemingway
Series: Vintage Deco
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Fiesta by Ernest Hemingway follows a group of American and British expatriates as they travel from Paris to Spain in the 1920s. The story delves into their complex relationships and the aimlessness of their lives, all set against the backdrop of the vibrant and chaotic Pamplona festival. Through themes of love, disillusionment, and the quest for meaning, Hemingway paints a vivid picture of the Lost Generation.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy vivid portrayals of the expatriate lifestyle in 1920s Paris, intertwined with themes of disillusionment post-World War I. With its sharp dialogue and rich character development, the narrative captures the essence of a group of friends seeking meaning amidst the bustling backdrop of the Parisian and Spanish landscapes.

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VINTAGE DECO — Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s — 100 years on.

This is a hell of dull talk...How about some of that champagne?

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.

VINTAGE DECO — Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s — 100 years on.

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Fiesta by Ernest Hemingway is praised for its remarkable and restrained writing, capturing atmosphere with a subtlety that brings characters to life. The novel is noted for its gripping story, lean prose, and being a significant literary event of its time, reflecting Hemingway's genius in American literature.

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ISBN: 9781784878092

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 October 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult

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Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 171g

Pages: 240

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About the Author

Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899. His father was a doctor and he was the second of six children. Their home was at Oak Park, a Chicago suburb.

In 1917, Hemingway joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris where he renewed his earlier friendships with such fellow-American expatriates as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Their encouragement and criticism were to play a valuable part in the formation of his style.

Hemingway's first two published works were Three Stories and Ten Poems and In Our Time but it was the satirical novel, The Torrents of Spring, that established his name more widely. His international reputation was firmly secured by his next three books; Fiesta, Men Without Women and A Farewell to Arms.

He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing and his writing reflected this. He visited Spain during the Civil War and described his experiences in the bestseller, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

His direct and deceptively simple style of writing spawned generations of imitators but no equals. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.

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