- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Scribner; Reprint edition (April 15 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0684844648
- ISBN-13: 978-0684844640
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.2 x 2.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #329,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
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
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899, Ernest Hemingway served in the Red Cross during World War I as an ambulance driver and was severely wounded in Italy. He moved to Paris in 1921, devoted himself to writing fiction, and soon became part of the expatriate community, along with Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Ford Madox Ford. He revolutionized American writing with his short, declarative sentences and terse prose. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, and his classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A STUNNING NARRATION OF THIS CLASSIC TALE,
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This review is from: Across the River and Into the Trees (Audio CD)
Surely one of Ernest Hemingway's most memorable novels, Across the River and Into the Trees, is the touching story of love that comes too late.First released in 1950 the novel covers three days in the life of Cantwell, a retired Army officer. He is now 50-years-old and has returned to the place where he nearly lost his life during World War II. Cantwell is a bitter man, feeling that he was unfairly demoted after losing a major part of his brigade during a forest battle. He was actually following orders, and believes the Army simply needed someone to blame and chose him. He spends his time in Venice dictating his memoirs, railing against top brass - Eisenhower, Patton, Montgomery. He also becomes involved in a love affair with a 19-year-old girl. This character is said to be based, at least in part, on a young girl Hemingway met when he visited Venice in 1948. For those unfamiliar with the story, there'll be no spoilers here by revealing the ending. Suffice it to say it is both moving and memorable. It's thrilling to hear voice performer Boyd Gaines read. The opening lines "They started two hours before daylight, and at first, it was not necessary to break the ice across the canal as other boats had gone on ahead." set the stage for a remarkable performance. Gaines is an experienced award-winning stage, film, and television performer, and he brings this wide range of experience to his audio narration resulting in a stunning rendition of this classic tale. - Gail Cooke
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She Loves You,
By A Customer
This review is from: Across the River and into the Trees (Hardcover)
That this book is perhaps the least popular of Hemingway's output is the condition which proves the point. This, maybe the most personal and certainly most melancholy of his novels, is the story of a middle aged colonel who struggles to recapture a time, a place, when the world was not yet so... what's the word... stupid? Maybe that's too rough. Tasteless? Lacking in humor? In color? The protagonist's affair with a much younger woman has no doubt damaged this novel's reputation in the context of said cultural environment, but I don't see how one can understand The Sun Also Rises or Farewell to Arms while being left cold by this particular one. (Hemingway blew his brains out on July 2, 1961. The Beatles 'Mop Top' haircut was born during a trip to Paris at around that same time, and this enabled the singers to shake their heads to the beat of She Loves You with much improved effectiveness, while millions of young women fainted from exhiliration.)
5.0 out of 5 stars
NO MIDDLE GROUND,
By A Customer
This review is from: Across The River And Into The Trees (Paperback)
you'll either love it or hate it. basically if you can accept that love transcends age, then the excellent writing, like a fine painting, should win you over! i travelled to venice 33 years ago, and can attest to the way hemingway brings the city of long ago back to life; if only for the brief molment whilst you read this fine book. great story too!
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