mystery lover:
I really enjoyed this and I don’t even like “The Sun Also Rises.” Great addition to literary history of the Twenties.
United States on Oct 02, 2023
Steven K:
I had to purchase this book after starting out with my prior copy and leaving it on a plane.
Lesley Blume's thorough research and telling of the backstory was engaging and insightful. The post story recap was also interesting as the book had engaged me to where I knew the people I was reading about.
I am a recent Hemingway fan and have purchased The Son Also Rises to read the result that Blume so brilliantly lays out.
Highly recommend this book for anyone who has read The Son Also Rises or is interested in the genesis of Hemingway's work life and career.
United States on Aug 17, 2023
André Carretoni:
I have really enjoyed the book. Congratulations! Just one small mistake: The old man and the sea wasn't dedicated to Mary, but Across the river and into the trees.
Germany on Sep 21, 2022
Thomé Madeira:
A Time of intensity, revolution, and the vivacity of the modern literature; a book that makes us more than witnesses, but vivid participants in one of the most brilliant - and agitated - periods of that newborn modernity.
Brazil on Dec 08, 2021
Dr. R. Brandon:
An excellent and meticulously researched book which is a pleasure to read.
The author reconstructs the events surrounding the writing and publication on 22nd October 1926 of Hemingway’s ‘The Sun Also Rises’. This was Hemingway’s first novel and his breakthrough to worldwide fame. (His ex-wife received the proceeds from the book.) Not only was this a breakthrough for Hemingway, but his terse, narrative, highly reduced style set a new trend in novel writing and was said to have ushered in the modern novel. It certainly marked a break with lush, descriptive Victorian and Edwardian literature, and certainly marked a break with the likes of Henry James and Edith Wharton. The book also portrayed the lives of characters not previously found in ‘literature’.
‘The Sun Also Rises’ was largely biographical and portrayed real people and real events, hence the interest in reconstructing those events and comparing fact and fiction. Perhaps one disappointing aspect of ‘Badly’ is that Hemingway does not come out of it well and was seemingly a rather nasty character who bit the hands of all those who had helped and promoted him, particularly his wife and...
United Kingdom on Jul 12, 2021
Duane Schneider:
“Everybody Behaves Badly” was thorough, detailed, and well-written. In terms of its structure and the way it limited itself to the events surrounding the writing of Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” it probably deserves five stars. As the author remarks in her afterward, she had lots of material to whittle down, and she did a nice job of it. “Everybody” begins with Hemingway in his early haunts of Paris, the cafes and bars, meeting and soliciting advice from Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound, and it ends with the publication of Hemingway’s first novel. I took away one star from my review only because of how slanted the book seems against Hemingway. I’m not a Hemingway fan or scholar. I’ve read some of his stuff, but this biography of his time in Paris turns me off to further reading of him. The book is an indictment of his personal life and his style. I came away thinking that Hemingway was incredibly selfish and had a self-destructive streak that would end in his suicide. He was awful to Hadley and to all his friends, he was undoubtedly an adulterer, he didn’t seem to care much one way or the other about his child, and he betrayed every single...
United States on May 05, 2019
G R OLSEN:
This covers the old ground written about by many biographers and by Hemingway himself. But it's still a great story with interesting flawed characters.
Australia on Feb 08, 2019
Deb's Guy:
If this is your first foray into the life of Ernest Hemingway, I highly recommend this book to you. For others, including myself, there is nothing new and much noticeably missing, including probably the most important fact—the cause of his death.
I don’t usually do reviews but I feel compelled to do this one due to the incredible amount of research and credits documented in the last sections of this book. There are pages and pages of interviews referenced by the author. In spite of all that time and the number of people involved in researching this work, it seems that a lot is lacking in this book. I have a shelf of Hemingway biographies. We already know of Hemingway’s early life in Paris. We know about his relationships with Stein, Toklas, Pound, and his arrogance with almost everyone. We know that he took, almost verbatim, the conversations of real people on a trip to bullfights in Spain to write his first full novel, The Sun Also Rises. And the author takes us through the publishing of that book and then rushes to the end which is Hemingway’s suicide. His life AFTER “Sun” was the most fascinating period in his life including his relationships...
United States on Jun 07, 2017
mishmish:
This book covers incidents and a period that have been described in many other works, but it is so detailed and clear that it becomes a fascinating picture of Hemingway's first encounter with literary success. His ambition and talent as a writer are well documented and we see, of course, the unravelling of his marriage to Hadley and his ungrateful behavior to friends (Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Parker) who had helped him. His overweening pride and contempt for others, plus shades of anti-Semitism, are negative aspects of his character compensated by his obvious talents and literary innovations. The excessive drinking and carousing described in this book was not unusual among the youth of that period, especially of that expatriate American youth which used Europe as a playground in the 1920s and 30s.
France on Aug 05, 2016
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| Paperback | 368 pages | 400 pages | 720 pages |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0544944435 | 978-0143111047 | 978-0679772873 |
| Publisher | Mariner Books; Reprint edition | Penguin Books; Reprint edition | Vintage; RARE LEATHER AND GOLD BOUND FRANKLIN EDITION |
| Best Sellers Rank | #435 in Artist & Architect Biographies #990 in Individual Artists #1,380 in Author Biographies | #406 in Emigrants & Immigrants Biographies #3,005 in Traveler & Explorer Biographies #3,427 in Author Biographies | #6 in German Literature #992 in Classic Literature & Fiction #2,480 in Literary Fiction |
| Dimensions | 5.31 x 0.9 x 8 inches | 5.49 x 0.85 x 8.22 inches | 5.5 x 1.5 x 8.25 inches |
| Individual Artists (Books) | Individual Artists | ||
| Language | English | English | English |
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| ISBN-10 | 0544944437 | 0143111043 | 9780679772873 |
| Item Weight | 10.5 ounces | 11 ounces | 1.15 pounds |
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United States on Oct 08, 2023