W. Ross Macdonald School Library

The Old Man and the Sea /

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, author.

The Old Man and the Sea / By Ernest Hemingway. - New York : Scribner, 1952. - 127 p. ; 20 cm.

In this brief novel an old Gulf fisherman, overtaken by hard luck, shows great tenacity and courage when he hooks a monster marlin. Battling the sea, he tows the marlin back to Havana, only to find it has been eaten by sharks.


Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1954

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Aged men--Cuba--Fiction.
Fishers--Cuba--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.


Cuba--Fiction.


FICTION / Sea Stories.
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