Across the River and Into the Trees -- Ernest Hemingway

<b>A poignant tale of a revitalizing love that is found too late--the fleeting connection between an Italian countess and an injured American colonel inspires light and hope, while only darkness lies ahead.</b> <p/>In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for <i>Across the River and into the Trees, </i> the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess. <p/>A bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the world-weary beauty and majesty of Venice, <i>Across the River and into the Trees</i> stands as Hemingway's statement of defiance in response to the great dehumanizing atrocities of the Second World War.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Ernest Hemingway<br><b>Publisher:</b> Scribner Book Company<br><b>Published:</b> 12/12/1996<br><b>Pages:</b> 288<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.53lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.64d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780684825533<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of <i>The Sun Also Rises</i> and <i>A Farewell to Arms</i> immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel <i>The</i> <i