The Sun Also Rises | Overview
The First World War, with its chemical weaponry and trench warfare, killed millions of soldiers and shattered the ideals of countless survivors. As the world prepared to enter a new decade, both those who had and those who had not seen combat shared a numbing sense of devastation. In The Sun Also Rises, his first published novel, Hemingway sketches the relationships among a group of young people in 1920s Europe who attempt to fill their empty lives with travel, whiskey, and love affairs.
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