本书所描写的是男主人公巴恩斯是位美国记者，在欧战中因伤而失去性能力；女主人公艾希利是位英国姑娘，在战争中失去了亲人。他们互相爱慕却无法结合。巴恩斯对性爱可望而不可及，就带了艾希利来到比利牛斯山区，以狩猪、钓鱼和观看巴斯克人斗牛来消磨时光。在斗牛士勇敢精神的激发下，巴恩斯感到无比兴奋；分认为这就是人的力量的体现，是生活的真谛，也就是太阳升起的地方。小说是“迷惘的一代”的代表作。

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Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it , but he learned it painfully and thoroughlky to countereact the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at princeton.