'The best story Hemingway has written - No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently' Sunday Times.
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.
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
*i*
Stripped back and elemental, Hemingway’s parable remains one of the
purest expressions of his inimitable style
*i*
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 *
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