Across the River and into the Trees
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A powerful, poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms.
A poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms.
'Luck is a feast which doesn't stay in one place'
Richard Cantrell is an American colonel living in Venice just after the Second World War. The fighting has left him scarred and embittered, a middle-aged man with a heart condition. It seems that only the love of Renata, a nineteen-year-old countess can save him. But Cantrell is living in the shadow of war, every move he makes dictated by old battle instincts, and it is possible that for him the longed-for peace may have come too late.
'The most important author since Shakespeare' New York Times
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Format: Paperback, 240 pages, 130mm x 197mm, 180 g
Published: 2017, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
A powerful, poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms.
A poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms.
'Luck is a feast which doesn't stay in one place'
Richard Cantrell is an American colonel living in Venice just after the Second World War. The fighting has left him scarred and embittered, a middle-aged man with a heart condition. It seems that only the love of Renata, a nineteen-year-old countess can save him. But Cantrell is living in the shadow of war, every move he makes dictated by old battle instincts, and it is possible that for him the longed-for peace may have come too late.
'The most important author since Shakespeare' New York Times
Across the River and into the Trees