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Across the River and into the Trees
Across the River and into the Trees
Author: Hemingway
ISBN-13: 9780684102320
ISBN-10: 0684102323
Publication Date: 1/1/1950
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Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Hardcover
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reviewed Across the River and into the Trees on + 36 more book reviews
If you like Hemingway, you'll like this.
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This 1950 story was inspired by time Hemingway spent in Venice, Italy in 1948, after an absence of thirty years.
In this story, an old army colonel has a passionate but almost platonic relationship with a young countess. Despite the difference in their ages, they are madly in love with each other, and spend all their time together, often fantasizing about their future together, traveling and raising a family, even though each knows that it will not happen.
A poignant story about a real love, a a disparaged love, but a real relationship nevertheless, one that is good for both people, told with Hemingway's fast-paced prose and eye for details.