Ernest Hemingway
Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 3.33 | 7215 Users | 505 Reviews
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| Title | : | Across the River and into the Trees |
| Author | : | Ernest Hemingway |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | April 15th 1998 by Scribner (first published 1950) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels |
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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."Point Books Concering Across the River and into the Trees
| Original Title: | Across the River and into the Trees |
| ISBN: | 0684844648 (ISBN13: 9780684844640) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Venice(Italy) Italy |
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My Top 5 Hemingway BooksOffers a wonderful portrayal of post-War Venice as a place of thriving life and a symbol of death. Also, one of Hemingway's most delicate love stories. Also: sex on a moving gondola!the worst hemingway i have ever read.
There's something about this book. On the one hand, it definitely suffers from all the problems that other reviewers have mentioned. It's pretty lightweight in the plot department, the dialogue is droningly repetitious at times (as Hemingway's dialogue often is), and you can't help but feel (as one often does while reading Hemingway) that the author is up on his personal soapbox, foaming away. But there's still a lot of "stuff" in this book. Aside from the obvious portraits of May/December
Haunting - old warriors who try to capture the youth they sacrificed to war - one of my favorite works of Hemingway.
This is a novel full of beauty laced with melancholy. It is, fittingly, set in Venice, itself an ancient and beautiful city that is slowly sinking into the sea. In part, it is a lament about the impossibility of going back to your youth once it is gone, but it is also a lesson in savouring what you have, a tribute to experience, and about knowing how to appreciate life in all its infinite subtlety. Cantwell is a WWII veteran who, knowing that he has not long left to live, has made his peace with
Simple IS genius. No one does the Iceberg Theory better than Hemingway himself, whatever that is. Hemingway penned this book in his usual minimalist style and it was panned by the critics and readers alike upon its initial release. After being snubbed by everyone, Hemingway returned in full form with the Old Man and the Sea, which won the Nobel Prize for fiction. But I luhv luhv this book. (Or I pretend to)Strangely enough, it reminds me of the vastly underrated Mario Puzos infinitely more
Remember for me a three star book IS definitely worth reading. I know Hemingway is not for everyone, but I like his writing style. I don't read his books for plot; I read them for the lines, for his ability to express complicated things simply and for his ability to capture the inherent differences between the sexes. Differences there are. There are two principle characters in this novel - Colonel Richard Cantwell and his lover Renata. He is fifty-one. She is nineteen. He is masculine. He is
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