{"product_id":"autumn-in-venice-book-andrea-di-robilant-9781101946657","title":"Autumn in Venice","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eA Venetian Affair\u003c\/i\u003e now gives us the remarkable story of Hemingway's love affair with both the city of Venice and the muse he found there--a vivacious 18-year-old who inspired the man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 fiftieth 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--recreates with sparkling clarity this surprising, years-long relationship. 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; the Ivanciches traveled to Cuba, placing Adriana beside him as he wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Old Man and the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 fifties.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49572041818385,"sku":"GOR009624880","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49950530928913,"sku":"GOR010992224","price":11.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50312394178833,"sku":"CIN1101946652VG","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50572344262929,"sku":"CIN1101946652G","price":4.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1101946652.jpg?v=1751174270","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/autumn-in-venice-book-andrea-di-robilant-9781101946657","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}