Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises â An Essential Literary Biography of Ruthless Ambition and the Lost Generation

Blume, Lesley M. M.

ISBN 10: 0544944437 / ISBN 13: 9780544944435

Published by Mariner Books, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises â An Essential Literary Biography of Ruthless Ambition and the Lost Generation
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0544944437
• ISBN 13: 9780544944435
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

“Brimming, addictive . . . In Everybody Behaves Badly, the party has just begun and the taste of fame is still ripe . . . The Lost Generation [is] restored to reckless youth in living black and white.” — James Wolcott, Vanity Fair
 
“An essential book . . . a page-turner. Blume combines the best aspects of critic, biographer and storyteller . . . and puts the results together with the skill of an accomplished novelist. [This is] a complicated story, told masterfully.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
 
“Magnificently reported.” — Gay Talese

In the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway traveled to Pamplona for the infamous running of the bulls. He then channeled that trip’s drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, midnight betrayals, and midday hangovers into a novel that redefined modern literature. Lesley Blume tells the full story behind Hemingway’s legendary rise for the first time, revealing how he created his own image as the bull-fighting aficionado, hard-drinking literary genius, and expatriate bon vivant. In all its youth, lust, and rivalry, the Lost Generation is illuminated here as never before.
 
“Engrossing . . . Drawing on journals, letters, and autobiographies of many members of the artistic circles in which Hemingway moved in the early 1920s, Blume shows how ruthlessly Hemingway betrayed his mentors, skewered his friends in his fiction, and sought to advance his career at all costs.” — Boston Globe
 
 “Fascinating . . . compulsively readable.” — Houston Chronicle

 

About the Author

LESLEY M. M. BLUME is an award-winning journalist, author, and cultural historian. She contributes regularly to Vanity Fair, and her work has appeared in many other publications, including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Town & Country, and The Paris Review Daily. She is a New Yorker currently based in Los Angeles.