First published 1994
Jake Barnes moves through the intoxicating world of 1920s Paris, where American expatriates drink Pernod and live off money sent from home. He burns with desire for Brett Ashley, a beautiful aristocrat whose wild nature drives her from man to man. Jake knows he can never truly have her, yet he cannot stay away. When their circle travels to Spain for the running of the bulls, the festival's electric energy and the raw spectacle of the bullfights intensify everything between them. New rivalries emerge as other men compete for Brett's attention. Jake watches the woman he loves slip further from his grasp, forced to confront a painful truth about desire and possession.
Genres: romance, literary-fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Paris, Spain
Period: 1920s
216 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Arrow Books