Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Jan 8th, 2007 by Bauman
“You are all a lost generation.” - Gertrude Stein, in conversation.
In 1975, noted Hemingway scholar Lawrence Broer interviewed Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Mowrer, for an article in the Lost Generation Journal. During the course of teh interview, she described The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway’s first and perhaps greatest novel as “my book” - she is not only the dedicatee, but also “had been Hemingway’s constant companion during perhaps the most important formative years of his career.”
At the end of a long afternoon of reminiscing over the years they spent in Paris and their trips throughout Europe, Mowrer presented Broer with a wonderful gift: her own personal copy of The Sun Also Rises. She inscribed it to him, “Best wishes, from one who saw the Sun Also Rise. Sincerely Hadley R. Mowrer.”
We are pleased to offer this first-issue copy, Hadley’s own and wonderfully inscribed by her, without the exceptionally scarce original dust jacket.