Everybody Behaves Badly The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

Lesley M. M. Blume

eBook - 2016

The New York Times bestseller. “Fiendishly readable . . . a deeply, almost obsessively researched biography of a book.”—The Washington PostIn 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. This revolutionary work redefined modern literature as much as it did his peers, who would forever after be called the Lost Generation. But the full story of Hemingway’s legendary rise has remained untold until now.Lesley Blume resurrects the explosive, res...tless landscape of 1920s Paris and Spain and reveals how Hemingway helped create his own legend. He made himself into a death-courting,... more