The Sun Also Rises
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The Sun Also Rises first appeared in 1926, and yet it's as fresh and clean and fine as it ever was, maybe finer. Hemingway's famously plain declarative sentences linger in the mind like poetry: "Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that." His cast of thirtysomething dissolute expatriates--Brett and her drunken fiancé, Mike Campbell, the unhappy Princeton Jewish boxer Robert Cohn, the sardonic novelist Bill Gorton--are as familiar as the "cool crowd" we all once knew. No wonder this qu
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Manufacturer: Scribner
Release date: 17 October 2006
ISBN-10 : 0743297334 | ISBN-13: 9780743297332
Release date: 17 October 2006
ISBN-10 : 0743297334 | ISBN-13: 9780743297332
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