Across the River and into the Trees (Scribner Classics) - Hardcover

Hemingway, Ernest

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684844648 ISBN 13: 9780684844640

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 2003

Synopsis

Set in Venice at the close of World War II, "Across the River and into the Trees" is the bittersweet story of a middle-aged American colonel, scarred by war and in failing health, who finds love with a young Italian countess at the very moment when his life is becoming a physical hardship to him. It is a love so overpoewring and spontaneous that it revitalizes the man's spirit and encourages him to dream of a future, even though he knows that there can be no hope for long. Spanning a matter of hours, "Across the River and into the Trees" is tender and moving, yet tragic in the inexorable shadow of what must come.

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Review:

"He can perform prodigies. He can fascinate us by pure evocation, by the tensity of the situation" (Times Literary Supplement)

"The most important author since Shakespeare" (New York Times)

"The most important author since Shakespeare" (The New York Times Book Review)

Book Description:

A powerful, poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0684844648
• ISBN 13: 9780684844640
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272