'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.
