{"product_id":"autumn-in-venice-9781101970386","title":"Autumn in Venice","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 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--\u003ci\u003eAutumn in Venice\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate look at Hemingway's final years.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called \"absolutely god-damned wonderful.\" A year shy of his fiftieth birthday, Hemingway hadn't published a novel in nearly a decade when he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a striking Venetian girl just out of finishing school. Here Andrea di Robilant re-creates with sparkling clarity this surprising, years-long relationship, during which Adriana inspired a man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hemingway used Adriana as the model for Renata in \u003ci\u003eAcross the River and into the Trees, \u003c\/i\u003e and continued to visit Venice to see her; when the Ivanciches traveled to Cuba, Adriana was there as he wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Old Man and the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrea di Robilant was born in Italy and educated at Columbia University, where he specialized in international affairs. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Venetian Affair, Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon, Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChasing the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Rome.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50414730379538,"sku":"9781101970386","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_18fe62f0-e150-4e28-ab7c-2c7cc91560c3.jpg?v=1729380302","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/autumn-in-venice-9781101970386","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}