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You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafés
Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises · 1926

Authors

American writer · 1899-1961
Ernest Hemingway

Novelist and short-story writer whose economical prose style influenced 20th-century literature.

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Ernest Hemingway · 1926
The Sun Also Rises

A group of expatriates travel from Paris to Spain, confronting love, disillusionment, masculinity and the aftermath of the First World War.

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Ernest Hemingway · 1964
A Moveable Feast

A memoir of Hemingway’s years in 1920s Paris, recalling his writing life, marriage, friendships and encounters with other expatriate writers.

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