The Sun Also Rises

<p><em>The Sun Also Rises</em> by Ernest Hemingway follows a group of American and British expatriates in 1920s Paris led by narrator Jake Barnes a war veteran left impotent from a wound. They drift through a life of drinking parties and aimless travel particularly to Pamplona Spain for the bullfights. Jake's deep but unfulfilled love for Lady Brett Ashley-a charismatic free-spirited woman unable to commit-underscores the group's emotional emptiness. Through sparse understated prose the novel captures the disillusionment of the Lost Generation and the search for meaning after the trauma of World War I.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>