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So what exactly happened to Jake in the war? I gathered he's impotent, but after reading the reviews people have left I now have a sense of morbid curiosity lol - Hemingway never said anything explicitly, but was the injury somehow based in truth, and we know what was supposed to have happened?
Jim O'Donnell It sounds like he was in a plane that crashed in Italy . . . that's really the most specific reference to his accident that I can place, and the book …moreIt sounds like he was in a plane that crashed in Italy . . . that's really the most specific reference to his accident that I can place, and the book never details his injury fully.(less)
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
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