Description
A poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms.
'Luck is a feast which doesn't stay in one place'
Richard Cantrell is an American colonel living in Venice just after the Second World War. The fighting has left him scarred and embittered, a middle-aged man with a heart condition. It seems that only the love of Renata, a nineteen-year-old countess can save him. But Cantrell is living in the shadow of war, every move he makes dictated by old battle instincts, and it is possible that for him the longed-for peace may have come too late.
'The most important author since Shakespeare' New York Times
A powerful, poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms.
About the Author
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.
Reviews
He can perform prodigies. He can fascinate us by pure evocation, by the tensity of the situation * Times Literary Supplement *
The most important author since Shakespeare * New York Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9781784872038
Author Ernest Hemingway
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Vintage Classics
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 195g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm
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