Nicholas Shakespeare

The old man and the siren

For the last decade of his life, the sozzled Hemingway was in thrall to an Italian 30 years his junior, padding around after her like a puppy

  • Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse

    Andrea di Robilant

    Atlantic Books, pp. 348

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