The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway, Ernest
From Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since August 5, 2004
Quantity: 1From Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since August 5, 2004
Quantity: 1About this Item
127pp. Blue cloth stamped in red on the cover and the spine. Three pages with tiny corner crease else a fine copy in near fine dustjacket with a slightly faded spine panel, two minuscule closed tears and a crease to rear flap. Wraparound dustjacket illustration by Hans Tisdall. 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner. Basis for the 1958 John Sturges movie featuring Spencer Tracy. Hanneman A45A. A lovely copy. ; Octavo. Seller Inventory # 18305
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Old Man and the Sea
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
Publication Date: 1952
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First British Edition.
About this title
"The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords."Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame:
Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator:
"The old man was dreaming about the lions."Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career. --James Marcus
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