Across the River and into the TreesA powerful, poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize winning author of A Farewell to Arms. A poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize winning author of A Farewell to Arms. 'Luck is a feast which doesn't stay in one place' Richard Cantrell is an American colonel living in Venice just after the Second World War. The fighting has left him scarred and embittered, a middle aged man with a