{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62341348327811,"sku":"9781101970386","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9781101970386.jpg?v=1786145151","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/autumn-in-venice-9781101970386","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}