'This is a hell of dull talk...How about some of that champagne?' Paris in the twenties:
Pernod parties and expatriate Americans loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in
love with Brett Ashley aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful with an abandoned sensuous
nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and
the heady atmosphere of the Bullfight their affair is strained by new passions new jealousies
and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman that he loves. VINTAGE DECO:
Nine blazing daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.