Paris in the twenties- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home.
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he 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, then resigned from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. His direct and deceptively simple style spawned generations of imitators but no equals. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, and died in 1961
Remarkable, startling, disquieting
*Spectator*
Some of the finest and most restrained writing that this generation
has produced
*New York World*
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*
It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic
narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame . . . This
novel is unquestionably one of the events of an unusually rich year
in literature
*New York Times (1926)*
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