A long short story and worth the money in quality of the old
Hemingway of Men Without Women days - though in quantity it can't
bulk to more than a scant 150 pages. A unique fishing story - as
old man Santiago determines to try his luck in the Gulf waters off
Cuba for the eighty fifth day. Surely his luck will change, he
assures his faithful young friend whose parents wouldn't let him
fish any more in such an ill-fated boat. So the boy goes along in
imagination with the old man, pretending that there is enough food
in the shanty- and supplementing the lacks from his own table;
pretending that bait could be found- and bringing him sardines;
planning for getting some warmer clothes for him and lugging water
from the village pump; talking gaily of the great "DiMag" and of
the game the Yankees are sure to win. And then the old man goes out
- beyond the other fishing boats - and drops his lines in the way
he has always done, and baits the hooks so that his hoped for great
fish could smell and taste. The miracle happens - and the fish, a
giant marlin, is bigger than any fish dreamed of. And the old man
is alone....The story of that battle, that carried him out to sea
and lasted through two days and two nights, is one of the miniature
modern classics of such writing. And the story of the sailing back
to port, as little by little the scavengers of the sea stripped
what was to have been his livelihood for months to come, down to
the skeleton, is grim and heartbreaking. A miracle tale, told with
such passionate belief that the reader, too, believes. There's
adventure here and Hemingway's old gift for merging drama and
tenderness gives it a rare charm. (Kirkus Reviews)
One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is
Hemingway's Nobel Prize-winning story of a Cuban fisherman's
struggle with a great fish - a struggle between man and the
elements, the hunter and the hunted.
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