The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

VERY good novel, a classic and for good reason, the story is loosely based off of the time that Hemingway spent in Paris and Europe after WWI where he was injured as an ambulance driver. In the novel, however, the protagonist's injury is his man parts and chronicles his group of alcoholic ex-pat friends as they live and travel in a drunken haze. The story takes the group on vacation in Spain where Hemingway uses bullfighting as vivid and beautiful metaphor for masculinity of his characters (all of which are, or have at one time, trying to pursue the same woman, Lady Bret). Recommended for everyone, a classic from arguably the greatest American writer of the 20th century. 247 pages.