A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Next in my project is A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. I chose this one because the guy that owns the used book shop where I buy all of my books said that this one doesn't come along very often. All I know about this book is that it is a war novel. I've never read one like this but I do know that I am not a fan of war movies. Hopefully this is different. Here's the summary:

The best American novel to emerge out of World War 1, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley. caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack of Caporetto - of lines of tired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized - bears comparison to Stendhal's depiction of the retreat from Waterloo. A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, of serene beauty amidst a world of chaos, A Farewell to Arms represents a new romanticism for Hemingway. Richer in language, more subtle in expression, and emotionally astute, it also symbolizes Hemingway's farewell, as Malcolm Cowley remarked, to an attitude, a time, and a literary method.

I'm excited about this one because reading an Ernest Hemingway sounds very smart.