Everybody behaves badly : the true story behind Hemingway's masterpiece The Sun Also Rises / Lesley M. M. Blume.
Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.Description: xx, 332 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780544276000 (hardback)
- 813/.52 B 23
- PS3515.E37 S9216 2016
- BIO001000 | LIT004020
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 813.52 BLU | Pending reserve | 065116 |
"An Eamon Dolan book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-320) and index.
Paris is a bitch -- Storming Olympus -- Fortuitous disasters -- Let the pressure build -- Bridges to New York -- The catalysts -- Eve in Eden -- The knock out -- Breach Season -- Dorothy Parker's Scotch -- Kill or be killed -- How happy are kings -- Sun, risen.
In the summer of 1925, Earnest 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 maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, midnight betrayals, and midday hangovers into his groundbreaking novel The 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.