Title: The Old Man And The Sea
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Publication Date: 1973
Format: Hardback with dust jacket
Condition: This book is in good condition for its age, with library stamps and stickers on the endpapers, a library sticker at base of spine, some foxing to endpapers.
Shorter than the conventional novel longer than the longest short story, Hemingway's new work of fiction eludes classification. It is the story of a young boy, an old man, and a giant fish. The scene is the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana. Between the boy and the man is a perfect relationship - each is a kind of guardian - companion to the other. The boy is not present when the giant fish is hooked, and his absence is felt. The old man, embodying the essential nobility of human striving, is engaged in a duel with another hero - the fish which tows him far out to sea. When at last the fish is exhausted and is shed alongside the boat, sharks attack it. In effect, the story is a tragedy but a tragedy that, at the last, emerges without grief into beauty.
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