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"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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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. HARDCOVER UK EDITION with dustjacket wraparound artwork by Hans Tisdall. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1954. First published September 1952, this copy is the 1975 reprint. Printed in Great Britain. Bound in original blue boards with maroon design to front board, maroon lettering & design to spine, in publisher's pictorial dustjacket. NOTE: A GOOD READING COPY ONLY. Ex-library copy with usual library markings, handling wear, clear protective laminate to price-clipped dustjacket, otherwise a tight solid hardcover reading copy. 127pp. SB-39. Seller Inventory # 037030
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. HARDCOVER UK EDITION with dustjacket wraparound artwork by Hans Tisdall. The dustjacket is particularly bright & clean. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1954. First published September 1952, this reprint copy is the 32nd impression, January 1969. Printed in Great Britain. Bound in original blue boards with maroon design to front board, maroon lettering & design to spine, in publisher's unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Slight handling wear, otherwise a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 127pp. SB-43. Seller Inventory # 037318
Book Description Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Tisdall, Hans (illustrator). Reprint. This is the 39th printing (if I have counted correctly) from 1974 of a book first published in the UK by Cape in 1952. Originally published in the US by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1952. The boards have fading along the top edge and there is a slight spine lean. Scattered light spotting to the top edges of the pages and fore edges have a small stain near the bottom corner. The pages have light spotting at the front and back of the book and there is a little creasing to the fore edges of two pages near the front but they are otherwise unmarked. The jacket has been price-clipped and re-priced with a printed price by the publisher. There is a slightly darkened spine and a little light edge wear. Jacket illustration by Hans Tisdall. Seller Inventory # 017614
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Reprint. F-/VG+. 8vo. original blue boards (a trifle rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper priced 60p net in UK only (a little rubbed & nicked, small tape marks to flaps); pp. 128 (last blank). A very good copy. Seller Inventory # 032769
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Book Description Hardcover. First British Edition. 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