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Winner · Pulitzer Prizes 1953

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

1952 short novel by Ernest Hemingway, written between December 1950 and February 1951

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.

Synopsis from Open Library.

Language
American English
Genre
novella

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