Rank 79 of 100
The Old Man and the Sea
Synopsis
Santiago, a Cuban fisherman who has gone eighty-four days without a catch, hooks a marlin larger than his boat and will not let go. Hemingway strips the struggle down to line, hands, and the talk a lonely man has with himself. Winning and bringing the prize home turn out to be different tasks.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1952
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Form
- Novella
- Genre
- Literary
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 1946–1999
- Movement
- Modernist
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 127 pages
- Reported copies
- Among the most read novellas of the century
- Kind
- Fiction