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The Sun Also Rises

Written by: Ernest Hemingway, Colm Toibin
Narrated by: William Hurt
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Publisher's Summary

Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway’s first novel and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.​

A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. In his first great literary masterpiece, Hemingway portrays an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions.

©1926 Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright renewed 1954 Ernest Hemingway. All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form (P)2006 Simon and Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved. AUDIOWORKS is an imprint of Simon and Schuster Audio Division, Simon and Schuster, Inc.
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What the critics say

2007 Audie Award Finalist for Classics

"An absorbing, beautifully and tenderly absurd, heart-breaking narrative....It is a truly gripping story, told in lean, hard athletic prose...magnificent." (The New York Times)

“The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost.” (The Wall Street Journal)

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I was transported into this novel...

One of the better audio books I've listened to in a while. I think I could listen to William Hurt recite the New York yellow pages.
I've read this before but it's equally enjoyable spoken in words from an great orator..

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positives: fairly short book

I just do not enjoy Hemingway's style. I understand that this book is about a lost generation who is dealing with the emotions during the aftermath of the first world war. I just do not care about the characters, the setting, or their stories.

The positives are that this is a fairly short book and that the performance is exceptional.

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Not entirely sure what the point was

MInd you I suppose I should cut Hemingway the same slack as I am willing to cut Tolstoy for say Anna Karinina. I guess some writers enjoyed writng about people who don't appear to accomplish very much which only enforces my wish to be a Russian aristocrat in the 1830's or apparently a North American expatriote in France prior to WW!!. But seriously, as much as I enjoyed reading about the cultural milieu and the angst of these 30 somethings?? living in it, I didn't find this story to be as profound as I had hoped. I will not call it boring but I willl say I thought the narrator fit the tone of the story perfectly. I mighty have to listen again to see if I missed anything.

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By far the best book I've listened to

Hemingway's story is superb and William Hurt really brings it to life. I don't understand why so many listeners here were disappointed by the reader, I almost gave up listening to this book. I'm glad I didn't. Hurt did a great job adapting Hemingway's style to audio.

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Well narrated

Well written and we'll narrated by William Hurt. The story is very captivating despite being more of a slice of life story where not much happens.

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Not Hemmingway's best work

I am glad I read 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' first as this would have made me skeptical of Hemmingway's books

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Vivid

This story transported me back to this specific period in time, and from place to place. I really enjoyed the description of each unique place and felt like I was there along side the characters as they travelled about in this book, the fishing trip was especially enjoyable and inspiring to me.
Books like this are special due to their qualities as time capsules taking the reader to a place that exists only in memories.

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Boring as sawdust

I don't often quit a book but I had to make an exception in this case. Was the memory of this work why Hemingway shot himself?

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Narrator is not that horrible

I really enjoyed this book. a short reading nonetheless
I almost didnt buy the book after reading other reviewers demeaning the narration too much. then thought id give it a chance, and give it a chance i'm glad i did.

The narrator is slow, but it is deliberate. this is exactly how you would imagine jake ( the protagonist) reading the novel in his own voice. The narrator switched accents and tones with the different characters in a befitting way.

Give it a shot I say!

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good, but...

well, firstly I find this book a bit overrated, albeit still very much worth reading/listening. but this narrator.... it isn't so much that he is bad- just utterly unfitting to narrate this story. he has this lazy, mumbling, hangover, slow way about him- he'd be much better suited to read Bukowski, and not Hemmingway. in addition, he is incapable to do accents and female roles. i would not recommend this edition to anyone.

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