Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. The Old Man & the Sea revived Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River & into the Trees.
It also led directly to his receipt of the 1954 Nobel Prize--an award
he gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a b
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Hardcover, 132 pages
Published
June 10th 1996
by Scribner
(first published 1952)
original title
The Old Man and the Sea
ISBN
0684830493
(ISBN13: 9780684830490)
edition language
English
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