The Old Man and The Sea (Annual Review of the Institute for Information Studies)
by Ernest Hemingway
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Author: Ernest HemingwayReader: Charlton Heston
Edition: Audio Cassette
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Published: 1998-06-01
ISBN: 0898459524
Publisher: Caedmon
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Book Review: Well, he nailed the title . . .
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is about an old man and the sea.
Actually, it is about quite more than that - I am just not sure what. I liked the book, and I love Hemingway; and that's the attraction - the great appeal of this book for me is that it is Hemingway's style and philosophy laid bare. Hemingway was famously agnostic - to the point of seeming despair. We see that theme and message over and over again in his writing: in Robert Jordan awaiting the shutting out of his lights in "For Whom The Bell Tolls," in Frederic Henry's lonely walk away from the richness meaninglessly denied him in "A Farewell to Arms," and in the nameless, solitary old man who mumbles his rosary to nothing in "A Clean, Well Lighted Place." Your theological agreements or disagreements with Hemingway aside, his literary message was consistent, unsentimental, and stark - and always presented in the blunt narrative that he mastered and is so often unsuccessfully imitated.
In "The Old Man and the Sea" the theme comes through again, this time in the situation of a little old man alone in a little old boat in the big old sea. The man, for all of his humanness, is just another contestant in nature. Most of the book is devoted to his long struggle with the great fish - and of course we see him eventually become the prey, so to spoke, as the links of the cold, unemotional, and amoral food chain pay out to take away the fruit of his hard work.
I think that as an introduction to Hemingway, this book might disappoint. EH's European novels are my favorites (like "The Sun Also Rises" and the other titles mentioned), and this plot prevents him from working through the human interactions that he did so well. EH was also a master at the short story - and this book isn't one of those either.
Recommended - but I would direct the EH beginner to one of the other titles mentioned.
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