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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
Romance between an older man and a 19-year-old; some sexual content
Substance Use
Some
Heavy drinking throughout the novel
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of mortality, love, and the fading of a man's life
What this book is about
Hemingway's 1950 novel follows Colonel Richard Cantwell over his last weekend in Venice, dying of a heart condition, falling in love with a 19-year-old countess. Features an older man-younger woman relationship with some sexual content, heavy drinking, and Hemingway's meditation on death. For adults.
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Age-gap relationship with sexual content
Heavy drinking
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