SanFermin 1 edition by Jesse Graham Literature Fiction eBooks
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They come to run, to remind themselves they are alive, to exorcize the demons of the past twelve months, to show off, get laid, get drunk, play pranks, join the dance....
Each July where the old pilgrim road to Santiago descends from the Pyrenees, the Navarran town of Pamplona explodes into a nine-day fiesta unlike any other on earth. Yearly, hordes of unlikely characters from all corners of the globe dream of their rendezvous with San Fermin and its rite of encierro eight mornings of running the fighting bulls of Spain.
A saga of great energy, color and sweep, SanFermin 1 (the first of a trilogy) sets the legendary fiesta made famous by Hemingway at the heart of a vast canvas ranging over world events across forty years and many countries. Through the eyes of a Tolstoyan cast of oilmen, philosophers, spies, lawyers, veterans, artists, reporters, flyboys, aid workers, backpackers and millionaires, the reader is drawn into an exhilarating and unpredictable world of quixotic personalities, mavericks and cockeyed oddballs from everywhere, all the lost boys of summer and their ladies chasing the mortal dream of passion, danger and fiesta – that heady drug unique to Spain.
This novel is their story. An epic of intertwined fortunes, friendships, romances and rivalries stretching over continents and generations from Nam to 9/11 and beyond. 1001 days and nights of tales, sacred and profane, woven into the tapestry of a place where people waltz with giants, race in company with primeval beasts and hunt the elusive spoor of Hemingway’s ghost and all the others who danced in these eternal streets.
SanFermin 1 edition by Jesse Graham Literature Fiction eBooks
This novel, announced to be one of three in this series, opens like a literary kaleidoscope, bright and shining starbursts of colors, a collage of disconnected scenes peopled by a myriad of characters coming into the cast from various places on the geographical map and interior landscapes within them.The kaleidoscope never completely closes down. One searches for a protagonist and thinks he's found none, then he believes he's found many, and finally knows he's found one, the one, for at the core of this unusually crafted work there is but one central character, namely Pamplona's Fiesta De San Fermin, an ancient nine day event celebrated on a plain in the Navarran province of Spain within sight of the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains.
It is the fiesta itself that is the central character - a living, breathing, old, young, staid, evolving, riotous, religious, exhilarating, exhausting, unforgettable, hard to remember, treasured experience for all who are fortunate to walk the streets of blessed anarchy in early July each year.
The story is about some who do come year after year, and I believe it is a fictional chronicle of a set of years that coincide with the beginning of the author's own long experience in fiesta, for Graham has been in fiesta from the era of the Vietnam War to the present.
Few know the things Graham has written about, fewer remember them. If his FOB, Filthy Old Man (obviously modeled on David Black who was referred to as "The Dirty Old Man") is the brutal skewer of all pretension in the masquerade, and Graham's Harry (obviously modeled on the beloved, revered Harry Hubert) is the gatekeeper in Sanfermines, it is Graham himself who is the record keeper.
The author is the archivist of the foreign experience in Sanfermines. No one knows more about this. It is known among the crowd called the cuadrilla in this novel, that Graham has kept a private journal of the fiesta during his years in Pamplona and more importantly he has lived it, both on the foreign side and on the Spanish side for he's known and embraced by locals and foreigners alike.
Now, Jesse Graham has decided to open the covers of his private journals and spread the pages before the world, and he's done so in a manner I can only describe as "experimental fiction" as it is sui generis, unlike any other novel I've ever read.
The writing is superb, evidencing an original voice, and the structure is inventive, imaginative and brings one into the kaleidoscope and keeps the eye on the pages as the palate of colors - some strong primary hues, others subtle and shaded - continue to twist and turn like the plots, sub plots and unexpected twists and turns of this epic saga as it unveils itself for the reader.
Anyone interested in any aspect of Pamplona's famed fiesta will be interested in reading this book, and those interested in seeing a new kind of fiction, reading an original voice also must read this whether they are interested in fiesta or not.
Ray Mouton
Author of PAMPLONA, Running The Bulls, Bars And Barrios In Fiesta De San Fermin
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SanFermin 1 edition by Jesse Graham Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This book has the ring of authenticity. There has been a cult-like following of the San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona and the running of the bulls among expats and bullfight aficianados for generations, and much has been written about its mystique and fascination. What is uniquely refreshing here is that Jesse Graham obviously knows this phenomenon well, and skillfully uses it as a lynch-pin for the introduction of a wild and diverse cast of characters, each a complex and huanced ingredient in the mix that forms the magic of San Fermin. Bring on the sequel.
Interesting, compelling, page turner. I love the setting(s) and characters. Interesting journey with dynamic characters. You won't put this book down until you reach the last page. This is one of those you end up staying up all night to finish.
A great picture of the aficionados who return to run the bulls year after year. It is a great book for anyone who has been and is thinking of returning, for anyone planning a trip and best for those who return year after year.
This book captures the excitement, conversations, dinners, breakfasts and pranks that fill wine-soaked days in the streets of Pamplona.
I haven't quite finished reading this wonderful, descriptive oral history from Jesse graham of Pamplona's Fiesta de San Fermín, one of the best known gatherings in the world, and I just don't want it to end. It will come too soon and will be tumultuous, I sense. Jesse, like many friends, knows and has lived this fiesta from the inside-out, and it shows. He takes us on a major tour of fiesta including the main events of the gala, from the ground swelling emotions of the morning bull-runs or "encierros' to the camaraderie of the corridas, but then wraps us up in the intricate details and personal references and reflections behind the scenes, which he so skillfully doles out. These are nuggets from his highly tuned skill at noting details, assessing personalities and getting the dialogue smack on. They run the gamut and are intricately weaved into a smooth novel based on a long oral history of what went on and continues to go on in this miraculous fiesta celebrating life. Graham has lived it, has danced the dance, tempted death on the streets and drank deep from the streets' wells, and has taken mental notes of all of it, and and dishes it out to us - be it to the caudrilla or to the new comer, in rolling snippets of insight and pleasure. I just don't want San Fermín to end, like the fiesta itself. Thankfully there are two more volumes that I'm looking forward to as I look forward each year to July 6th. A great read - dos orejas y más to Jesse Graham!
San Fermin is an exceptional piece of writing. The central conceit that Vietnam War created a new "Lost Generation" is brilliant. The idea of telling the story using three points of view -- Tib, the damaged American vet / Kit, the British drifter / Sally, the American free-spirit -- holds enticing echoes of The Sun Also Rises. Woven together, their stories simultaneously take us backwards and forwards in time while establishing the complexities of each character. The author is indeed telling his story "on the slant" as portions of each tale would seem to come from personal experience -- an intriguing proposition. And I assume as we move forward into parts 2 and 3, these three characters will meet in 1975 or so when their lives eventually collide on the streets of Pamplona. Especially moving is the imagery -- Harry's butterfly like Annie's memory in Kit's mind. Truly wonderful writing.
This novel, announced to be one of three in this series, opens like a literary kaleidoscope, bright and shining starbursts of colors, a collage of disconnected scenes peopled by a myriad of characters coming into the cast from various places on the geographical map and interior landscapes within them.
The kaleidoscope never completely closes down. One searches for a protagonist and thinks he's found none, then he believes he's found many, and finally knows he's found one, the one, for at the core of this unusually crafted work there is but one central character, namely Pamplona's Fiesta De San Fermin, an ancient nine day event celebrated on a plain in the Navarran province of Spain within sight of the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains.
It is the fiesta itself that is the central character - a living, breathing, old, young, staid, evolving, riotous, religious, exhilarating, exhausting, unforgettable, hard to remember, treasured experience for all who are fortunate to walk the streets of blessed anarchy in early July each year.
The story is about some who do come year after year, and I believe it is a fictional chronicle of a set of years that coincide with the beginning of the author's own long experience in fiesta, for Graham has been in fiesta from the era of the Vietnam War to the present.
Few know the things Graham has written about, fewer remember them. If his FOB, Filthy Old Man (obviously modeled on David Black who was referred to as "The Dirty Old Man") is the brutal skewer of all pretension in the masquerade, and Graham's Harry (obviously modeled on the beloved, revered Harry Hubert) is the gatekeeper in Sanfermines, it is Graham himself who is the record keeper.
The author is the archivist of the foreign experience in Sanfermines. No one knows more about this. It is known among the crowd called the cuadrilla in this novel, that Graham has kept a private journal of the fiesta during his years in Pamplona and more importantly he has lived it, both on the foreign side and on the Spanish side for he's known and embraced by locals and foreigners alike.
Now, Jesse Graham has decided to open the covers of his private journals and spread the pages before the world, and he's done so in a manner I can only describe as "experimental fiction" as it is sui generis, unlike any other novel I've ever read.
The writing is superb, evidencing an original voice, and the structure is inventive, imaginative and brings one into the kaleidoscope and keeps the eye on the pages as the palate of colors - some strong primary hues, others subtle and shaded - continue to twist and turn like the plots, sub plots and unexpected twists and turns of this epic saga as it unveils itself for the reader.
Anyone interested in any aspect of Pamplona's famed fiesta will be interested in reading this book, and those interested in seeing a new kind of fiction, reading an original voice also must read this whether they are interested in fiesta or not.
Ray Mouton
Author of PAMPLONA, Running The Bulls, Bars And Barrios In Fiesta De San Fermin
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