Friday, December 11, 2009

Byline by Ernest Hemingway

Listen to Byline by Ernest Hemingway. This audiobook is 15 hours in length
Across three continents and four decades ... here is Hemingway -- the adventurer, the reporter, the man!
More intimately than all his fiction, Hemingway the reporter reveals Hemingway the man -- driving an ambulance through a bullet-barrage or leading guerrilla forces into Paris -- always in the thick of the action.
Here are his most sensational dispatches -- the grisly truth about Mussolini, the horrors of total war, the rootless expatriates of the Lost Generation, the blood and beauty of bullfighting and big game hunting ...
Here are the behind-the-scenes stories that became For Whom The Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises.


Across the River and into the Trees

Set in Venice at the close of World War II, Across the River and into the Trees is the bittersweet story of a middle-aged American colonel, scarred by war and in failing health, who finds love with a young Italian countess at the very moment when his life is becoming a physical hardship to him. It is a love so overpowering and spontaneous that it revitalizes the man's spirit and encourages him to dream of a future, even though he knows that there can be no hope for long. Spanning a matter of hours, Across the River and into the Trees is tender and moving, yet tragic in the inexorable shadow of what must come.