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A review by zibjule
Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises by Lesley M.M. Blume
4.0
I just started reading Hemingway this year, after reading "Hemingway's Girl" as a guilty pleasure.
Wanting more, I figured I should read something *he* actually wrote and I started with "The Sun Also Rises," his first full-length novel. This book, "Everybody Behaves Badly," is a great follow-up to Sun, telling the behind-the-scenes story of the events that inspired the book.
The author doesn't glorify the Hemingway legend, instead showing how the legend started in the first place. The reader gets to know Hemingway and the whole literary Paris crowd by creating a cohesive narrative drawn from published interviews, as well as letters and books they themselves wrote.
Recommend if you have any interest in Hemingway, his Paris crowd, or if you liked the movie "Midnight in Paris!" ;)
Wanting more, I figured I should read something *he* actually wrote and I started with "The Sun Also Rises," his first full-length novel. This book, "Everybody Behaves Badly," is a great follow-up to Sun, telling the behind-the-scenes story of the events that inspired the book.
The author doesn't glorify the Hemingway legend, instead showing how the legend started in the first place. The reader gets to know Hemingway and the whole literary Paris crowd by creating a cohesive narrative drawn from published interviews, as well as letters and books they themselves wrote.
Recommend if you have any interest in Hemingway, his Paris crowd, or if you liked the movie "Midnight in Paris!" ;)