Paris

2015 · 29462 — Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. In the summer of 1925 Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona Spain for the town’s infamous running of the bulls. Then over the next six weeks he channeled that trip’s maelstrom of drunken brawls sexual rivalry midnight betrayals and midday hangovers into his groundbreaking novel The Sun Also Rises. Lesley Blume resurrects the explosive restless landscape of 1920s Paris and Spain and reveals how Hemingway helped create his own legend. He made himself into a death-courting bull-fighting aficionado; a hard-drinking short-fused literary genius; and an expatriate bon vivant. Blume’s account reveals the inner circle of the Lost Generation as we have never seen it before and shows how it still influences what we read and how we think about youth sex love and excess. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, unknown