The Sun Also Rises
Gustav’s Review:
I sometimes find classics tricky to get into. However, once I started, I couldn’t put it down. Not only did many of the locations correspond with this year’s Tour De France, but his style of writing is fascinating. The short form sentences feel very conversational while also transporting you to the streets of Paris or Pamplona. You can feel Hemmingway and his own life in the novel and if f you are sitting in the summer heat somewhere, I would highly recommend this novel.
The Sun Also Rises is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their illusions in post-World War I Europe. The man at its centre, world-weary journalist Jake Barnes, is burdened both by a wound acquired in the war and by his utterly hopeless love for the extravagantly decadent Lady Brett Ashley. When Jake, Brett and their friends leave Paris behind and converge in Pamplona for the annual festival of the running of the bulls, tensions among the various rivals for Brett's wayward affections build to a devastating climax.
