Autumn in Venice :
Di Robilant, Andrea, 1957-
Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse / Andrea di Robilant. - London : Atlantic Books, 2018. - xiv, 346 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway and his fourth wife travelled for the first time to Venice. He was a year shy of his 50th birthday and hadn't published a novel in nearly a decade. At a duck shoot in the lagoon he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a striking Venetian girl just out of finishing school. This book recreates with sparkling clarity this surprising, years-long relationship. Hemingway used Adriana as the model for Renata in 'Across the River' and 'Into the Trees', and continued to visit Venice to see her; the Ivanciches travelled to Cuba, placing Adriana beside him as he wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'. This illuminating story of writer and muse - which also examines the cost to a young woman of her association with a larger-than-life literary celebrity - is an intimate look at the fractured heart and changing art of Hemingway in his fifties.
9781782399384 (hbk.) : 17.99 1782399380 (hbk.) : 17.99
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 --Homes and haunts--Italy--Venice.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 --Knowledge--Italy.
Americans--Italy--Venice.
Literature.
Literature.
Venice (Italy)--In literature.
PS3515.E37
813.52 ROB
Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse / Andrea di Robilant. - London : Atlantic Books, 2018. - xiv, 346 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway and his fourth wife travelled for the first time to Venice. He was a year shy of his 50th birthday and hadn't published a novel in nearly a decade. At a duck shoot in the lagoon he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a striking Venetian girl just out of finishing school. This book recreates with sparkling clarity this surprising, years-long relationship. Hemingway used Adriana as the model for Renata in 'Across the River' and 'Into the Trees', and continued to visit Venice to see her; the Ivanciches travelled to Cuba, placing Adriana beside him as he wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'. This illuminating story of writer and muse - which also examines the cost to a young woman of her association with a larger-than-life literary celebrity - is an intimate look at the fractured heart and changing art of Hemingway in his fifties.
9781782399384 (hbk.) : 17.99 1782399380 (hbk.) : 17.99
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 --Homes and haunts--Italy--Venice.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 --Knowledge--Italy.
Americans--Italy--Venice.
Literature.
Literature.
Venice (Italy)--In literature.
PS3515.E37
813.52 ROB