The Old Man and the Sea
Simultaneously intimate, simple, deep, and powerful, The Old Man and the Sea is a story of triumph, loss, struggle, and perseverance, set against the rich backdrop of a Cuban fishing community.
The novella follows an old fisherman as he struggles to catch a gigantic marlin and turn his waning luck around. Over the course of this struggle the book contemplates masculinity, religion, fate, and the ultimate meaning (or lack thereof) of life.
Ernest Hemingway is a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and Pulitzer Prize.
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August 12, 2014Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was born in Illinois and began his career as a reporter before enlisting as an ambulance driver at the Italian front in World War I. Hemingway and his first (of four) wives lived in Paris in the 1920s, as part of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, before moving to Key West, Florida, and later to Cuba. Known first for short stories, he sealed his literary reputation with his novels, including The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea.