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  • Autumn in Venice

  • Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse
  • By: Andrea di Robilant
  • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
  • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (24 ratings)

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Autumn in Venice

By: Andrea di Robilant
Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
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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 50th 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 50s.

©2018 Andrea di Robilant (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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A great writer, vile subjects not worth reading about

So nauseated by psychotic “sport” hunting bullfighting drunkenness of these over rated self absorbed people. Hemingway not so jokingly thought himself the next Shakespeare or Homer. Gag.

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