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The Sun Also Rises (1957): Film vs Book
Film · 1957 · Directed by Henry King · Starring Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn
About the film
A group of expatriates drift between Paris and Spain in the years after the First World War.
How close is it to the book?
Loosely based on the bookThe film adds glamour and romance and softens the book's sense of loss, using a conventional dramatic shape where the novel is spare and indirect.
Read or watch first?
The novel is a model of short sentences and things left unsaid.
What the book gives you
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A stylish, wistful story with vivid scenes of travel, friendship and longing.
Who will like it: Readers who like spare, atmospheric stories about friends adrift in Paris and Spain.