The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.
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the first time i read this book in middle school i was way too young to appreciate it. i remember that whenever someone asked me how i like it, i would complain about how it was just 90 pages of a man fishing who was being pulled by a fish. (i dont even know that i realized how it ended). this second time around it really had me. first of all, the writing was simply beautiful, so simple yet descriptive at the same time. it was also a really good reminder of not giving up, and the ability of people to still have courage even when everything is failing. i wish i was half as strong as this old man.
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