Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Librarian’s note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.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 drifts to Spain to the daz….Read More
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