{"product_id":"autumn-in-venice-ernest-hemingway-and-his-last-muse-9781782399384b","title":"Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eThe remarkable story of Hemingway's love affair with both the city of Venice and the muse he found there - a young Italian girl who inspired him to complete his great final work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the autumn of 1948 Hemingway and his fourth wife travelled 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 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 - recreates with sparkling clarity this surprising, years-long relationship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHemingway used Adriana as the model for Renata in Across the River and Into the Trees, and continued to visit Venice to see her; the Ivanciches travelled to Cuba, placing Adriana beside him as he wrote The Old Man and the Sea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42820520706128,"sku":"9781782399384B","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781782399384-l.jpg?v=1785880078","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/autumn-in-venice-ernest-hemingway-and-his-last-muse-9781782399384b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}