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The Sun Also Rises
- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- Narrator
- Michael Gandolfini
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 February 2022
- Run Time
- 8 hours 4 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 3.0 (1 review)
What to expect
Hemingway’s brilliant first novel is a poignant tale of love, loss, and the power to endure.
In his unforgettable first novel, Hemingway artfully illuminates the plight of the Lost Generation, weaving a poignant tale of love and loss in the aftermath of World War I. The story follows two expatriates living in Paris in the 1920s: Jake Barnes, an American war veteran and journalist, and Lady Brett Ashley, an independent Englishwoman exploring the opportunities afforded by a new era of liberated women and sexual freedom. Impotent due to an injury suffered during the war, Jake must navigate his hopeless love for Brett in a changed world of waning morality.
From Parisian society’s vibrant nightlife to the ruthless bullfighting rings of Spain, The Sun Also Rises takes readers on a powerful journey through mass disillusionment, moral bankruptcy, and elusive could-have-beens. All the while, we see both the brokenness and resilience of a generation scarred physically and emotionally by the horrors of war.
Critics Review
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“No amount of analysis can convey the quality of The Sun Also Rises. It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame.”
New York Times (1926)
User Reviews
Book 3.0
Narration 1.0
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3.0 1.0
Unfortunately I really struggled with the accents put on for the dialogue. They were inconsistent throughout the book and not a good representation of the characters nationality. I’ve rarely heard such a poor Scottish accent.
Lulie 2023-03-15
Details
- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- Narrator
- Michael Gandolfini
- Duration
- 8 hours 4 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 February 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200881666
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Classic fiction, Historical fiction, First World War fiction, Fiction: general and literary
- Rating
- 3.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 1.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Hemingway’s brilliant first novel is a poignant tale of love, loss, and the power to endure. In his unforgettable first novel, Hemingway artfully illuminates the plight of the Lost Generation, weaving a poignant tale of love and loss in the aftermath of World War I. The story follows two expatriates living in Paris in the 1920s: Jake Barnes, an American war veteran and journalist, and Lady Brett Ashley, an independent Englishwoman exploring the opportunities afforded by a new era of liberated women and sexual freedom. Impotent due to an injury suffered during the war, Jake must navigate his hopeless love for Brett in a changed world of waning morality. From Parisian society’s vibrant nightlife to the ruthless bullfighting rings of Spain, The Sun Also Rises takes readers on a powerful journey through mass disillusionment, moral bankruptcy, and elusive could-have-beens. All the while, we see both the brokenness and resilience of a generation scarred physically and emotionally by the horrors of war.
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