Fiesta

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' Spectator

“Remarkable, startling, disquieting”

Spectator
Some of the finest and most restrained writing that this generation has produced New York World
Hemingway captures atmosphere by reticence and breathes life into his characters by pages left unsaid... It is American; it is literature; and it is a first novel by a genius Evening News
It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame . . . This novel is unquestionably one of the events of an unusually rich year in literature New York Times (1926)

Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922 he reported on the Greco-Turkish war, then resigned from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. His direct and deceptively simple style spawned generations of imitators but no equals. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, and died in 1961

'Remarkable, startling, disquieting' Spectator Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, a remarkably beautiful yet dissolute woman of class. Leaving behind the Pernod and parties of their life in Paris, the couple and their fellow expatriates take an excursion to Spain. There, in the midst of the dazzling fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is shaken by new passions and jealousies. See also: The Essential Hemingway

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