Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
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It was Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power - Cicero is consul; Caesar, his ruthless young rival; Pompey, the republic's greatest general; Crassus, its richest man; Cato, a political fanatic; Catilina, a psychopath; and, Clodius, an ambitious playboy.
Ernest Hemingway's most decadent novel- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans loose-living on money from home. Discover Ernest Hemingway's most decadent novel 'He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing' 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, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift 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 that he loves. 'Told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame' New York Times 'Remarkable, startling, disquieting' SpectatorISBN13: 9780099285038
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 240
Edition:
Publication Date: 15 Sep 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 198(H)x129(L)x18(W)173
Weight (gm): 173