Reading Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: Glossary and Commentary H. R. Stoneback Designed as an exercise in close reading, this first volume in the series is grounded in narrative and aesthetic concerns, addressing history, local knowledge, actual and symbolic landscape and inscape, and every aspect of the seven-eights of the story that lies beneath the surface – the submerged iceberg of the fiction. Author H. R. Stoneback equips the reader to sound its depths and take full measure of the novel's allusiveness, indirection, and understatement. Navigating the labyrinthine text of The Sun Also Rises, Stoneback negotiates its intricate, complex, and interconnected passages and leads the reader ultimately to the center of Hemingway's vision. H.R. Stoneback, professor of English and director of graduate studies at the State University of New York at New Palz, is author of Hemingway's Paris: Our Paris? and Singing the Springs and Other Poems and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Hemingway Society. He has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar in China, a visiting professor of American Literature at the University of Paris, and the director of the American Center for Students and Artists in Paris.