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1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 13 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by P, J, Ochlan. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Venice.
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Knowledge -- Italy.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Americans -- Italy -- Venice -- Biography.
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Venice (Italy) -- In literature.
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Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Ochlan, P. J., narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781684412198 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1684412196 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12157533 |
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