Name: Everybody Behaves Badly
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9780544276000

Lesley Blume

An account of the making of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises, " the larger-than-life people that inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world

The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises

Everybody Behaves Badly

b.andherbooks

Detailing the The Sun Also Rises's road to publication, this is a fascinating look at the early Hemingway and his years in Paris in the 1920s. Hemingway is an asshole, but a genius, and this is an unflinching portrayal of how he worked his way into the ex-patriot American literary scene in Paris to his ultimate betrayal of many of his biggest supporters and friends.

The Sun Also Rises is perhaps my favorite book (if I have to pick just one), and this was a wonderful look into its inception. 

However, I must urgently complain about the citation style. Blume makes many assertions and claims based on her primary source information, but this is not indicated in any way in the body of the text. Instead, one must guess she is pulling from a source, flip to the back, and find the relevant citation (if any) based on the beginning of a sentence. This is sloppy, and I hate it. If you have over fifty pages of end notes, just use super-scripted numbers PLEASE. For my sanity.

Everybody Behaves Badly The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises

Reviews

Highlights