Fiesta
  • Published: 15 September 2022
  • ISBN: 9780099285038
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $22.99

Fiesta

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31 Jan 2023
Paperback
15 Sep 2022
Paperback
18 Aug 1994
EBook
30 Sep 2012
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Ernest Hemingway's most decadent novel: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans loose-living on money from home.

Discover Ernest Hemingway's most decadent novel

'He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing'
Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the Bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman that he loves.

'Told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame' New York Times

'Remarkable, startling, disquieting' Spectator
  • Published: 15 September 2022
  • ISBN: 9780099285038
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for Fiesta

Remarkable, startling, disquieting

Spectator

Some of the finest and most restrained writing that this generation has produced

New York World

Hemingway captures atmosphere by reticence and breathes life into his characters by pages left unsaid... It is American; it is literature; and it is a first novel by a genius

Evening News

It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame . . . This novel is unquestionably one of the events of an unusually rich year in literature

New York Times (1926)
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