The Old Man and the Sea
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:4th Feb '99
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£7.99(9780099908401)
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.
The book that won Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature
'It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought'
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.
'The best story Hemingway has written. No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently' Sunday Times
'The writing is as taut, and at the same time as lithe and cunningly played out, as the line on which the old man plays the fish' Guardian
It is unsurpassed in Hemingway's oeuvre. Every word tells and there is not a word too many
A quite wonderful example of narrative art. The writing is as taut, and at the same time as lithe and cunningly played out, as the line on which the old man plays the fish * Guardian *
Hemingway’s masterpiece is one of the first serious books I remember reading… I find its themes deeply moving… it’s short, direct, and full of emotional depth -- Michael Morpurgo * i *
ISBN: 9780099273967
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 8mm
Weight: 86g
112 pages