{"product_id":"autumn-in-venice","title":"Autumn In Venice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Geographic Traveller''s \u003c\/i\u003ethe best books on European cities, 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn''t published a novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the first time to Venice and there, at a duck shoot in the lagoon he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a striking young Venetian woman just out of finishing school. What followed was a platonic love affair; he continued to visit her in Venice; she in turn came to Cuba while he wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Old Man and the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e. This is the illuminating story of a writer and a muse that intimately examines both the cost to Adriana and the fractured heart and changing art of Hemingway in his fifties.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Hemingway [is] an enduringly fascinating character, one whom di Robilant, with his easy-paced style, has sympathetically brought to life.'' \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Effortlessly and expertly explores the secret desires, successes, and depressive obstacles that shrouded Ernest Hemingway''s final productive years.'' \u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316286497150,"sku":"NW9781782399407","price":11.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781782399407.jpg?v=1778718227","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/autumn-in-venice","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}