The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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Born on July 21, 1899, in Cicero (now
Oak Park), Illinois, Ernest Hemingway
served in World War I and worked in journalism before publishing his story
collection In Our Time. He was renowned for novels like The Sun Also
Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The
Old Man and the Sea, which won the 1953 Pulitzer. In 1954, Hemingway won
the Nobel Prize. He committed suicide on July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho.
Plot summary:
The Old Man and the
Sea is the
story of a battle between an old, experienced Cuban fisherman and a large marlin. The novel opens with the explanation that the
fisherman, who is named Santiago, has gone 84 days without catching a fish.
Santiago is considered "salao", the worst form of unlucky. In fact,
he is so unlucky that his young apprentice, Manolin, has been forbidden by his
parents to sail with the old man and been ordered to fish with more successful
fishermen. Still dedicated to the old man, however, the boy visits Santiago's
shack each night, hauling back his fishing gear, getting him food and
discussing American baseball and his favorite player Joe DiMaggio. Santiago tells Manolin that on the
next day, he will venture far out into the Gulf Stream, north of Cuba in the
Straits of Florida to fish, confident that his unlucky streak is near its end…
(Source:
Wikipedia)
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