Instead of beginning his career as a writer of promise, Ernest Hemingway startled the world, and especially his own generation, with The sun also rises, his first full-length novel. The disinherited and disillusioned survivors of the World War discovered in him their spokesman, a writer free of sentimentality and cant who could summon forth characters true to their own experience and way of life. The sun also rises, is a chronicle of a lost generation drifting, frustrated and demoralized, to its doom.