Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse

Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse
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In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called â€œabsolutely god-damned wonderful.â€ A year shy of his fiftieth birthday, Hemingway hadnâ€™t published a novel in nearly a decade when he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a striking Venetian girl just out of finishing school. Here Andrea di Robilant re-creates with sparkling clarity this surprising, years-long relationship, during which Adriana inspired a man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work.
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Hemingway used Adriana as the model for Renata in Across the River and into the Trees, and continued to visit Venice to see her; when the Ivanciches traveled to Cuba, Adriana was there as he wrote The Old Man and the Sea. The illuminating story of writer and museâ€”which also examines the cost to a young woman of her association with a larger-than-life literary celebrityâ€”Autumn in Venice is an intimate look at Hemingwayâ€™s final years.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 30123560
ReleaseDate 2018-06-05
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9781101946657

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