{"product_id":"9781101946657","title":"Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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 eighteen-year-old who inspired the man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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—re-creates 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; when the Ivanciches traveled to Cuba, Adriana was there 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021612007664,"sku":"9781101946657","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101946657_p0.jpg?v=1763690220","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101946657","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}