Across the River and into the Trees

Sep 21, 2024 1:40 PM

Author:Ernest Hemingway

The War is just over. In Venice, a city elaborately and affectionately described, the American Colonel, Richard Cantrell, falls passionately in love with Renata, a young Italian countess who has 'a profile that could break your or anyone else's heart'. Cantrell is embittered, war-scarred and old enough to be Renata's father, but he is overwhelmed by the selflessness and freshness of the love she is offering.

But this is no fairy tale. The fighting may be ended, but the wounds of war have not yet healed. And for some, the longed-for peace has come too late. A lesser known classic by one of the great American writers of the twentieth century, Across the River And Into The Trees is still vintage Hemingway.

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

There is something so complete in Mr. Hemingway's achievement in A Farewell to Arms that one is left speculating as to whether another novel will follow in this manner, and whether it does not complete both a period and a phase...crisply natural and convincing

—— Guardian, 1929

A novel of great power

—— Times Literary Supplement

Essential Hemingway...a gripping account of the life of an American volunteer in the Italian army and a poignant love story

—— Daily Express

Hard, almost metallic, glittering, blinding by the reflections of its hard surface, utterly free of sentimentality- a strange and original book, it will convince you of its honesty and veracity

—— Arnold Bennett

A most beautiful, moving and humane book

—— Vita Sackville-West

A novel of great power.

—— TLS

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