Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/02/1999
ISBN: 9780099273967
Length: 112 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 129mm
Weight: 85g
RRP: £7.99
The book that won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature
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.
It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/02/1999
ISBN: 9780099273967
Length: 112 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 129mm
Weight: 85g
RRP: £7.99
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