The Critical Reception of Hemingway's the Sun Also Rises

by Peter L. Hays

Changing critical views of Hemingway's great novel of the Lost Generation, from publication to the present.

In the eight decades since its publication, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, like a Rorschach blot, has measured not only critics' opinions of Hemingway but also the critical temper of the times. An initial reviewer saw thebook as a satire on American expatriates, an unflattering portrait of wastrels and a nymphomaniac wandering Europe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571133666
• ISBN13: 9781571133663
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"