Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriateAmericans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in lovewith Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, butwith an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When thecouple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the headyatmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by newpassions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he willnever possess the woman he loves.
【作者简介】
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899 as the sonof a doctor and the second of six children. After a stint as anambulance driver at the Italian front, Hemingway came home toAmerica in 1919, only to return to the battlefield - this time as areporter on the Greco-Turkish war - in 1922. Resigning fromjournalism to focus on his writing instead, he moved to Paris wherehe renewed his earlier friendship with fellow American expatriatessuch as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Through the years, Hemingwaytravelled widely and wrote avidly, becoming an internationallyrecognized literary master of his craft. He received the NobelPrize for Literature in 1954, following the publication of The OldMan and the Sea. He died in 1961.
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