An American ambulance driver on the Italian front falls in love with a nurse and deserts a war that spares no one.
Books that mention A Farewell to Arms (10)
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger: “he got me to read this book A Farewell to Arms last summer.”
Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday: “The understanding he took from them is expressed timelessly in his book A Farewell to Arms. He wrote, 'The world breaks every one...'”
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami: “"After thinking long and hard about it, I concluded that it was from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The hero ... manages to escape from Italy to Switzerland by boat..." — discussed at length as a remembered story about a man who keeps eati”
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger: “RICK (quietly): My darling, isn't that a line from "A Farewell to Arms"?”
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion: “So goes the famous first paragraph of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, which I was moved to reread by the recent announcement that what was said to be Hemingway's last novel would be published posthumously next year.”
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin: “Then there are the books I teach every year: Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Johnny Got His Gun, A Farewell to Arms, A Prayer for Owen Meany...”
Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse by Faith Sullivan: “She checked out A Farewell to Arms and began reading while her little girl was in the children's room.”
Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid: “When they gave me the baby, I thought of A Farewell to Arms, because it did look like a skinned rabbit with a wrinkled old man's face.”