Publisher's Synopsis
Ernest Hemingway visited Italy for the first time in thirty years in the fall of 1948. Across the River and into the Trees, the narrative of Richard Cantwell, a wartorn American colonel stationed in Italy at the end of WWII, and his love for a young Italian countess, was inspired by his reacquaintance with Venice, a city he adored. Across the River and into the Trees is Hemingway's defiant answer to the vast dehumanising horrors of World war ii -. It is a sad, bittersweet monument to love that overpowers reason, to the human spirit's resilience, and to the worldweary beauty and majesty of Venice.
