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Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (Arrow Classic) [Paperback]

Ernest Hemingway (Author)
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Publication Date: 18 Aug 1994 | ISBN-10: 0099908506 | ISBN-13: 978-0099908500 | Edition: New Ed

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, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change.

When the couple drifts 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 he loves.

Powerful, intense and magnificent, Fiesta is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as a writer of genius, and set him on the way to being one of the greatest literary novelists of the twentieth century.

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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow; New Ed edition (18 Aug 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0099908506
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099908500
  • Product Dimensions: 11 x 1.4 x 17.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 8,271 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"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 )

"Remarkable, startling, disquieting" (Spectator )

"Some of the finest and most restrained writing that this generation has produced." (New York World )

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The early masterpiece from thr Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms. (20031208)
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite book by Hemingway 18 April 2006
By Morris
Format:Paperback
I recently read this novel again, and again I found it an evocative, mesmerising, and absolutely brilliant description of Paris and Spain in the interwar years.

Hemingway was a master at tight yet superb prose. He really could conjure up the dusty ride on top of a bus, on the road in Northern Spain, the peasants passing round the skin full of wine. He puts you right there, sitting outside at the cafe during the Fiesta, everyone getting drunk, the fireworks going off, the young men taking their chances as they run in front of the bulls.

Hemingway was a genius, a term used much too frequently and easily today.

I also recomend the biography 'Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences' by James R. Mellow. Gives the reader a better understanding of the world in which he lived.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars The genius lies in the observant, yet simple storytelling 6 Feb 2000
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Following all the hype of Hemingway's birth last year, this was my first attempt to understand the allure of the man. Aptly, this was his first novel. What I found was a very economical telling of a story that at first seems very simple, but then develops into quite a complex tale.

On the negative side, some of the narrative was too matter-of-fact; and I often got lost (and bored) with some of the pointless dialogue.

More positively, the magnificent decription of the detail of bull-fighting, with the pride and dedication of the bull-fighters and their aficiandos, the grubby detail of Spain and the romanticism of an American in the Old World, made this a very enjoyable read. Coupled with the amorality of the aristocratic Brett and the (for the time) expected anti-Semitic views, this is very much a book of its era, but still with something to offer to a new generation of readers.

I can't wait to read "The Old Man and the Sea" now.

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A bitter-sweet tale of love, lust and lost opportunities 28 Dec 2001
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Set in the mid-1920s, the story deals with the 'lost generation' of American and British expatriates who have settled in Paris to live in a moral wasteland of drunkenness and promiscuity. Centering on the relationship between its narrator, Jake Barnes, an American journalist rendered sexually impotent by a wound suffered during World War I, and Lady Brett Ashley, the queen of the pleasure-seekers, it explores with great pathos the anguish and inadequacy of love when robbed of its physical expression, and of the latter in the absence of an emotional attachment. In true Hemingway style, drinking, fishing and the bull-fight provide the framework. Yet its crowning glory is perhaps the strength of Hemingway's vivid narrative technique which draws the reader into every scene, and induces an almost personal bond with each of the brilliantly crafted characters. Warmth literally permeates the novel, despite the various calamities of its principal actors, and those privileged to have experienced it shall surely be devouring Hemingway's works for years to come.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Ugly book
I've only got to about chapter four, and so far the writing is wonderful, a complete joy.

This is not a review of Hemingway, this is a review of the publisher. Read more
Published 6 days ago by A A. Brookes
4.0 out of 5 stars Great author
Nothing really happens in the story, but the way in which Hemingway describes the Fiesta and Paris interwar period is amazing. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Giorgio Brocco
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant observations
For the descriptions of the bullfighting ethos alone, and the culture that supported them, he has no equal as a novelist.
Published 1 month ago by Justin John Whitsed
3.0 out of 5 stars somewhat immature
i have not finished the bok yet. I feel it's rather immature (his first book?).
I lived in Paris durig the sixties ( I was also immature then) and I do get some... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Inger Lippman
3.0 out of 5 stars Boys behaving badly at Fiesta Time
Hemingway's first novel features a group of drunken, badly behaved ex pats living in Paris and dashing off to Pamplona for the bull fighting. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ms. A. Dunhill
3.0 out of 5 stars I'm no expert but its a bit of a letdown
This book is supposed to be one of Hemingway's best. However I've read through most of it and it just doesn't wow me. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ali Khan
4.0 out of 5 stars Another brilliantly- written story of the famous Hemingway
This story is set in the 1920s, and describes the story of a group of American and British guys who live, drink and love in Paris and Spain. Read more
Published 3 months ago by A Rogoff
4.0 out of 5 stars A great read but beware of the misleading back cover on the Arrow...
I will not review the book as there are excellent reviews on the internet. However, I would give 0 stars for the Publishers, Arrow Books. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Kiwifunlad
1.0 out of 5 stars Tried hard, gave up
The dialogue is painful. It's not because it's dated though just the use of that word explains the problem in a way. It's so bad you feel it's dated and embarrassing. Read more
Published 10 months ago by bookpike
4.0 out of 5 stars Welcome to the 20th century!
It's both ironic and telling that this book, which is kicking on for 100 years old, is in many ways even more brutal and shocking to new readers now than when it was first... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. Ja McLaughlin
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