The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway's spare, Pulitzer-winning novella: an old Cuban fisherman battles a giant marlin far out at sea, a study in endurance, dignity, and grace under pressure.
Hemingway’s late masterpiece, which helped win him the Nobel Prize, tells a simple story with enormous weight. Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who has gone eighty-four days without a catch, hooks a great marlin far out in the Gulf Stream and fights it for days, only to lose it to sharks on the way home. Pared to the bone, it is a parable about endurance, dignity, and grace under pressure, and one of the books Jack Dorsey counts among those that shaped him.
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Colum McCann
I read this novel to my father when he was sick and lay dying in his hospital bed in Dublin . It was a profoundly cathartic experience for both of us. He understood perfectly the metaphors at hand: Sometimes he was the old man and sometimes it was me. I think the grand search at sea was gorgeously entwined with his journey to come. And we were both dreaming of lions.
Jack Dorsey
Interview · February 2016
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