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The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway (Hardcover)
Description
Classic Literature. Fiction. Literature. HTML: The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic..
Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — Fiction — 1953)
Pulitzer Prize (Winner — Fiction — 1953)
Audie Award (Finalist — 2007)
Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)
Bancarella (1953)
Notable Books List (1952)
Hungarian Big Read (20)
Media reviews
The Old Man and the Sea has almost none of the old Hemingway truculence, the hard-guy sentimentality that sometimes gives even his most devoted admirers twinges of discomfort. As a story, it is clean and straight. Those who admire craftsmanship will be right in calling it a masterpiece... it is a
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poem of action, praising a brave man, a magnificent fish and the sea, with perhaps a new underlying reverence for the Creator of such wonders. Show Less
It is a tale superbly told and in the telling Ernest Hemingway uses all the craft his hard, disciplined trying over so many years has given him.