![]() ![]() They are novels that manage to describe a specific place and time and manage to evoke in that place and time a theme that millions flock to, saying “That’s what it felt like.” Hunter famously said “no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world.” It was Gertrude Stein who said “You are all a lost generation,” but it was Hemingway who made it the epigraph of his greatest novel – the one that made him a household name and forever enshrined his place in American literature.įrom the very opening lines, Hemingway establishes his style. ![]() ![]() Then there are books that actually, magnificently find a voice that does manage to speak for a generation. The Novel: There are books that desperately want to speak for a generation (I’m looking at you Douglas Coupland). Acclaim: All-TIME List Modern Library Top 100 English Language Novels of the 20th Century #45.ML Edition: #170 – two dust jackets (1935, 1946) – Bennet Cerf was unable to get a renewal on the Scribner’s authors and thus Hemingway, Wolfe and Fitzgerald were gone from the Modern Library by the mid-50’s.The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me. Last Lines: “ ‘Oh, Jake,’ Brett said, ‘we could have had such a damned good time together.’ Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic.First Line: “Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.”. ![]() The 1951 Modern Library dust jacket for Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises (1926) ![]()
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