Reading Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises by H.R. Stoneback Reading Hemingway Series 2007, 352 pp ISBN 978-0-87338-867-2 Paper, $24.95 courtesy of our partner, Atlas Books Call (419) 281-1802 to order by phone.

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The first volume in this new series is Reading Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, by H. R. Stoneback. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway’s first big novel, immediately established him as one of the great prose stylists and preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post–World War I generation, known as the “Lost Generation.” This poignant story of a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion to Pamplona represents a dramatic shift in Hemingway’s ever-evolving style. Featuring Left Bank Paris in the 1920s and brutally realistic descriptions of bullfighting in Spain, the story is about the flamboyant Lady Brett Ashley and the hapless Jake Barnes in an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions.

H.R. Stoneback, professor of English and director of Graduate Studies at the State University of New York at New Palz, is author of Hemingway’s Paris: Our Paris? and Singing the Springs and Other Poems and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Hemingway Society and has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar in China, a visiting professor of American Literature at the University of Paris, and the director of the American Center for Students and Artists in Paris.

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Of related interest:

Under Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature by Robert W. Trogdon
Hemingway’s Cuban Son by René Villarreal and Raúl Villarreal
Teaching Hemingway Series