{"product_id":"across-the-river-and-into-the-trees-ernest-hemingway","title":"Across the River and into the Trees (Ernest Hemingway)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eA Farewell to Arms.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Luck is a feast which doesn't stay in one place'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The most important author since Shakespeare' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnest Hemingway\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1899. His father was a doctor and he was the second of six children. Their home was at Oak Park, a Chicago suburb. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1917, Hemingway joined the Kansas City \u003ci\u003eStar\u003c\/i\u003e 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 where he renewed his earlier friendships with such fellow-American expatriates as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Their encouragement and criticism were to play a valuable part in the formation of his style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHemingway's first two published works were \u003ci\u003eThree Stories and Ten Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e but it was the satirical novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Torrents of Spring\u003c\/i\u003e, that established his name more widely. His international reputation was firmly secured by his next three books; \u003ci\u003eFiesta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMen Without Women\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Farewell to Arms\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing and his writing reflected this. He visited Spain during the Civil War and described his experiences in the bestseller, \u003ci\u003eFor Whom the Bell Tolls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis direct and deceptively simple style of writing spawned generations of imitators but no equals. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Old Man and the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 1961.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 240 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65808576807261,"sku":"K063130210","price":11.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/6313021000001A.jpg?v=1788500442","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/across-the-river-and-into-the-trees-ernest-hemingway","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}