{"product_id":"9781684412181","title":"Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse","description":"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 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 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 fifties.","brand":"HighBridge Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056737304816,"sku":"9781684412181","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781684412181_p0.jpg?v=1763702004","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781684412181","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}