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The Sun Also Rises
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Author: Ernest Hemingway
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The Sun Also Rises Description
Binding: Hardcover
Label: SCRIBNER
Manufacturer: SCRIBNER
Book Pages: 247
Publication Date: 1954
Publisher: SCRIBNER
Studio: SCRIBNER
Label: SCRIBNER
Manufacturer: SCRIBNER
Book Pages: 247
Publication Date: 1954
Publisher: SCRIBNER
Studio: SCRIBNER
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Review Summary: A Brilliant Young Author's First Offering
Review: A young Ernest Hemingway writes his first novel. Full of the joy and sadness of youth, no one is better than Hemingway in evoking the sensual pleasures of the world. Lovely prose, wonderful energy... Hemingway in the first flush of his true talent. Not to be missed.
Donald Gallinger is the author of The Master Planets
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Review Summary: A True Classic
Review: (This review is based on the Arrow Classic edition of the book)
Four years ago, I wrote a terrific review for this very novel, and it shames me to this day. I reread "The Sun Also Rises" last week, and to my surprise, I adored it. I remembered having experienced utter boredom the first time around, but now I know it was only because I did not know how to read, obviously.
Hemingway's use of economy of words and understatement are things you must be aware of, which means: simply because the style appears simple does not mean the text is. There is a lot more than meets the eye, and for this, one may easily miss out on the essential heart of the novel. This is certainly what I did on my first reading.
Short sentences perhaps tend to make the reader read faster, and that would be a fatal mistake with Hemingway. Because you have less, you must pay more attention. The narrative will not give you chewed meat: you have to do your own chewing. And this is Hemingway's strong point and trade-mark, and narratively speaking, it works wonders if you work with it. I was of the mind that his style only really worked for short stories, but "The Sun Also Rises" proved me wrong. This is a powerful novel, highly enjoyable, and a landmark in worldwide literature.
Certainly one of Hemingway's best, and one of those novels you must read!
PS: the Arrow Books edition contains numerous typos of the embarrassing type, not that they make funny new words, but "gve" instead of "give" is relatively awkward to find in a book, so are misspelled names and the likes, or forgotten quotation marks, all of which appear in the Arrow Books edition of the novel.
Review Summary: A Brilliant Young Author's First Offering
Review: A young Ernest Hemingway writes his first novel. Full of the joy and sadness of youth, no one is better than Hemingway in evoking the sensual pleasures of the world. Lovely prose, wonderful energy... Hemingway in the first flush of his true talent. Not to be missed.
Donald Gallinger is the author of The Master Planets
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A True Classic
Review: (This review is based on the Arrow Classic edition of the book)
Four years ago, I wrote a terrific review for this very novel, and it shames me to this day. I reread "The Sun Also Rises" last week, and to my surprise, I adored it. I remembered having experienced utter boredom the first time around, but now I know it was only because I did not know how to read, obviously.
Hemingway's use of economy of words and understatement are things you must be aware of, which means: simply because the style appears simple does not mean the text is. There is a lot more than meets the eye, and for this, one may easily miss out on the essential heart of the novel. This is certainly what I did on my first reading.
Short sentences perhaps tend to make the reader read faster, and that would be a fatal mistake with Hemingway. Because you have less, you must pay more attention. The narrative will not give you chewed meat: you have to do your own chewing. And this is Hemingway's strong point and trade-mark, and narratively speaking, it works wonders if you work with it. I was of the mind that his style only really worked for short stories, but "The Sun Also Rises" proved me wrong. This is a powerful novel, highly enjoyable, and a landmark in worldwide literature.
Certainly one of Hemingway's best, and one of those novels you must read!
PS: the Arrow Books edition contains numerous typos of the embarrassing type, not that they make funny new words, but "gve" instead of "give" is relatively awkward to find in a book, so are misspelled names and the likes, or forgotten quotation marks, all of which appear in the Arrow Books edition of the novel.