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    Across the River and Into the Trees
    Across the River and Into the Trees
    Across the River and Into the Trees
    Audiobook7 hours

    Across the River and Into the Trees

    Written by Ernest Hemingway

    Narrated by Boyd Gaines

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    Soon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber!

    A poignant tale of a revitalizing love that is found too late—the fleeting connection between an Italian countess and an injured American colonel inspires light and hope, while only darkness lies ahead.

    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 bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the world-weary 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 2006
    ISBN9780743565172
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    Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His novels include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899, he died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.

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    • 3/5
      As a long time Hemingway enthusiast, Across The River was one of the few of his works I hadn't read at the time. I was a little disappointed by the pace and depth compared to earlier works. Compared to The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast or even Death In The Afternoon, Across The River plods along lacking energy. But perhaps that reflects the disposition of the author as much as the the main character, both of whom are navigating the late years of a full and sometimes brutal life. This book will forever hold special meaning for me personally, however, as the reading of it was shared with my own Countess - MY last and only true love. --SA Justus
    • 3/5
      Not one of my favorites. Kept my interest at first because of the detail and history he gives of the city. Book seemed to drag on a bit and I seemed to lose interest around the middle of the book. It seemed there was 150 pages of them just eating and saying 'I love you' over and over again. The ending was nice, especially his explanation of the title. Not bad but there are bette rHemingway books out there.
    • 5/5
      Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece. It does reach into your comfort zone hence a lot of negative written and said about this book. A meditation on life and death in the refined background of Venice's waterfront. If Lucchino Visconti was still with us, he may have had a shot at this one though the heroe of this book would not have been his typical character as if the "Gattopardo" would have chosen to die in Venice's Harris Bar where I doubt they would play Mahler.
    • 3/5
      This is a good book, but it isn't great by Hemingway standards. Hemingway's greatest strengths lie in writing honestly and in portraying tragedies. The writing here is very open and honest, but the tragedy is mitigated by the fact that there is only one way for the story to end. It lacks the punch at the end that some of his other novels had.
    • 4/5
      A story about a cynical American officer and his affair for an Italian countess in post-WWII Italy. A banal subject is brought to wondrous life by a great author.
    • 2/5
      This is the 9th Hemingway I have listened to. Went slower than the others.