From the Inside Flap:
Everybody behaves badly . . . Give them the proper chance. Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises
In the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town s infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip s drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, midnight betrayals, and midday hangovers into his groundbreaking novelThe Sun Also Rises. This revolutionary work redefined modern literature as much as it did his peers, who would forever after be called the Lost Generation. But the full story of Hemingway s legendary rise has remained untold until now.
Lesley Blume resurrects the explosive, restless landscape of 1920s Paris and Spain and reveals how Hemingway helped create his own legend. He made himself into a death courting, bull fighting aficionado; a hard drinking, short fused literary genius; and an expatriate bon vivant. Blume s vivid account reveals the inner circle of the Lost Generation as we have never seen it before, and shows how it still influences what we read and how we think about youth, sex, love, and excess."
From the Back Cover:
In this magnificently reported book, Lesley Blume deftly documents the genesis of Ernest Hemingway s genius. Gay Talese
With impeccable research, delicious details, illuminating insight, and chiaroscuro wit, Lesley Blume has written the bestbook on Hemingway in Paris since A Moveable Feast. Charles Scribner III
This gloriously gossipy, compulsively readable account of Hemingway s early years in Paris with his first wife, Hadley, andthe rest of the Lost Generation is a welcome successor to Paula McLain s novel The Paris Wife.How did Hemingway turn the wild weeks of bullfighting in Pamplona and the alcohol-addled nights in Left Bank cafes into The Sun Also Rises? That s the serious question at the heart of Blume s well-researched book. Annalyn Swan and Mark Stevens, Pulitzer Prize winning authors of de Kooning: An American Master
Blume has carved a mountain of original research into a riveting tale of Hemingway s literary, romantic, and publishing travails. Publishers Weekly, starred review"
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