Was just in a book club discussion about Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, so jotting a few notes for my own reference to come back to.
The Old Man and the Sea is a novella written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cayo Blanco (Cuba), and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction written by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba.
Written in 1951, The Old Man and the Sea is Hemingway's final work published during his lifetime.
In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.
In 1954, Hemingway wanted to donate his Nobel Prize in Literature gold medal to the Cuban people. To avoid giving it to the Batista government, he donated it to the Catholic Church for display at the sanctuary at El Cobre, a small town outside Santiago de Cuba where the Marian image of Our Lady of Charity is located.
I listened to the Audible version (narrated by Donald Sutherland!). I have a lot more Hemingway to read before I feel like I really know this author (why have I not read him more until now?).
Hemingway's works
- (1925) In Our Time
- (1926) The Sun Also Rises
- (1926) Torrents of Spring
- (1929) A Farewell to Arms - read, great
- (1937) To Have and Have Not
- (1940) For Whom the Bell Tolls
- (1950) Across the River and into the Trees
- (1952) The Old Man and the Sea - read, loved it
- (1970*) Islands in the Stream
- (1986*) The Garden of Eden
Update: returning periodically to update what I have read
