"The Old Man And The Sea" Back Cover of The Book:
The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. It is one of his famous works and it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlinfar out in the sea. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel committee as contributing to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954.