Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novella — about old Cuban fisherman Santiago's epic three-day struggle with a great marlin in the Gulf Stream — which won him the Pulitzer Prize (1953) and contributed to his Nobel Prize (1954).
Creates the Hemingway iceberg at maximum compression — The Old Man and the Sea is the supreme example of Hemingway's iceberg theory (that the real story lies below the surface of what is written); the simple story of a man, a fish, and the sea contains Hemingway's complete philosophy of grace under pressure and the dignity of losing well.
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