Seventy years ago, Ernest Hemingway put the finishing touches to his final novel, The Old Man and the Sea. The story of an ageing Cuban fisherman, and his battle to catch a colossal marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off Cuba, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was later nominated as contributing to his Nobel Prize in Literature.
12 August 2021, The Tablet
Hemingway throws us a line about life
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