Across the River and Into the Trees

Hemingway, Ernest

ISBN 10: 0586044663 / ISBN 13: 9780586044667

Published by Grafton Books, London

About this Item

6th Grafton Books printing (1987) in black wraps with a black & white image of Venice on the front wrap. Ex library book with one mark on the bottom of the text block, and stickers - no cardholder or stamps. Good condition. The covers and spine are creased. The binding is tight. The interior pages are unmarked. Free 1st class upgrade.

Seller Inventory # 12084

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Across the River and Into the Trees
• Publisher: Grafton Books, London
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0586044663
• ISBN 13: 9780586044667
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for Across the River and into the Trees, the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess. A poignant, bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the worldweary beauty and majesty of Venice, Across the River and into the Trees stands as Hemingway’s statement of defiance in response to the great dehumanizing atrocities of the Second World War. Hemingway’s last full-length novel published in his lifetime, it moved John O’Hara in The New York Times Book Review to call him ‘the most important author since Shakespeare.’

About the Author

Ernest Hemingway did more to influence the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established him as one of the greatest literary lights of the 20th century. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He died in 1961.