Hemingway's first novel, set in 1920s Paris, a city of Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with the aristocratic, beautiful and sensuous Brett Ashley, and the couple are drawn towards the dazzle and excitement of the Spanish fiesta.
New cover reissue of this novel set in Paris and Spain during the twenties.
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, but 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 he loves. Powerful, intense, visually magnificent,
'Fiesta' is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as a writer of
genius.
