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A powerful, poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms.

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.

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

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Formats & editions

  • Paperback

    9781784872038

    September 18, 2017

    Vintage Classics

    240 pages

    RRP $26.00

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  • Paperback

    9780099909606

    December 31, 1994

    Arrow

    240 pages

    RRP $24.99

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The Old Man and the Sea
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Hemingway on War
Islands in the Stream
The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
By-Line
A Farewell to Arms: The Special Edition
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro
True At First Light
The First Forty-Nine Stories
The Torrents Of Spring
Winner Take Nothing
Death In The Afternoon
Green Hills Of Africa
Men Without Women
A Moveable Feast
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro And Other Stories
To Have and Have Not
A Farewell To Arms
Fiesta
The Essential Hemingway
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