Across the River and into the Trees

Across the River and Into the Trees begins in the first chapter with the frame story of 50-year-old Colonel Cantwell's duck hunting trip to Venice set in the time-present. Cantwell, who is dying of heart disease, spends a Sunday afternoon in a duck blind in Venice. In the second chapter, Hemingway takes Cantwell back in time by means of a stream of consciousness interior monologue, that present...