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Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize of Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of a man's challenge to the elements in which he lives.
About the Author
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA. He died in 1961.
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A classic tale of perseverence, overcoming adversity,love of others including the natural world, an honourable tale.
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'The best story Hemingway has written - No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently' - Sunday Times.
'It is unsurpassed in Hemingway's oeuvre. Every word tells and there is not a word too many' - Anthony Burgess
'A quite wonderful example of narrative art. The writing is as taut, and at the same time as lithe and cunningly played out, as the line on which the old man plays the fish' - Guardian
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Without a word misplaced Hemingway sets down the dignity and frailty of a time-worn fisherman whose strength is failing him but who nevertheless honours a bargain long ago struck with the ocean. This fable won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. (Kirkus UK)
ISBN: 9780099273967
ISBN-10: 0099273969
Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 112
Published: March 1999
Dimensions (cm): 20.0 x 13.2
x 0.7
Weight (kg): 0.09
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