![]() ![]() This relationship proved the model for Frederic and Catherine's tragic romance in A Farewell to Arms. Severely wounded, he recuperated in a Red Cross hospital in Milan where he fell in love with one of his nurses. Hemingway served as an ambulance driver for the Italian army in World War I. It will surprise no one that a book so vivid and deeply felt originated in the author's own life. Hemingway masterfully interweaves these dual narratives of love and war, joy and terror, and-ultimately-liberation and death. It would also be hard to find a more harrowing American novel about World War I. Ernest Hemingway is the notorious tough guy of modern American letters, but it would be hard to find a more tender and rapturous love story than A Farewell to Arms. ![]()
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