Autumn in Venice, Andrea di Robilant
Autumn in Venice, Andrea di Robilant
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Autumn in Venice
Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse

Author: Andrea di Robilant

Narrator: P.J. Ochlan

Unabridged: 11 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/26/2018

Synopsis

In the fall of 1948 Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called "a goddam wonderful city." He was a year shy of his fiftieth 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. Di Robilant—whose great-uncle moved in Hemingway's revolving circle of bon vivants, aristocrats, and artists—re-creates 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; when the Ivanciches traveled to Cuba, Adriana was there 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.

About Andrea di Robilant

Andrea di Robilant was born in Italy and educated at Le Rosey and Columbia University, where he specialized in international relations. He lives in Rome with his wife and two children and works for the Italian newspaper La Stampa.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emilio on February 19, 2020

Un amore senile Nell'autunno del 1948 Hemingway, quasi cinquantenne, giunse a Venezia con la quarta moglie, Mary. Nella città lagunare incontrò una ragazza dell'alta società, Adriana Ivancich, che aveva velleità letterarie (pubblicò, in seguito, delle poesie da Mondadori). Fra i due ebbe inizio un rap......more

Goodreads review by Ace on July 09, 2018

This book offers an insightful and often-compelling look at the later years of Hemingway's life, during which he found inspiration in a strange affection for a young Italian woman. Parts of the book are hilarious and other parts quite moving. Brief parts discuss interactions with other famous figure......more

Goodreads review by Roxanne on June 29, 2018

This is a Goodreads win review. This is about Ernest Hemingway when he his fourth wife travel to Venice. He was 50 at that time and he had not published any books in ten years. While in Venice he falls in love with a young girl. After she gave him inspiration he started writing again. He kept seeing......more

Goodreads review by worldofbooksby_h on October 07, 2019

Moram da priznam da mi se ova knjiga izuzetno dopala. U pitanju je biografija Ernesta Hemingveja, zajedno za pricom o njegovoj poslednjoj muzi Adrijani Ivancic, koja ga je inspirisala da napise dva dela, za jedno od ta dva dela je dobio Pulicerovu i Nobelovu nagradu - "Starac i more". Hemingvej ili ka......more

Goodreads review by Christina on May 13, 2021

In the autumn of 1948 Ernest Hemingway, the acclaimed American writer and his fourth wife Mary, left Cuba where they resided and took a luxury liner to Europe for a nostalgic visit to their wartime haunts in France. By a twist of fate, the couple ended up journeying to northern Italy where Hemingway......more

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