Everybody behaves badly : the true story behind Hemingway's masterpiece The Sun Also Rises / Lesley M.M. Blume.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blume, Lesley M. M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Sun also rises.

Hemingway, Ernest.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Homes and haunts--Spain.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Homes and haunts--France--Paris.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.

Sun also rises (Hemingway, Ernest).

Homes.

France--Paris.

Spain.

Physical Description:

xx, 332 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

Summary:

"The making of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world. 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"An Eamon Dolan book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-320) and index.

ISBN:

9780544276000

0544276000

OCLC:

928136752