Download Ernest Hemingway The Old Man And The Sea (1952) Background. That and the other great ocean currents are the last wild country left. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its 9 reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks.

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The old man and the sea won the pulitzer prize in 1952. Copyright © 1952 by ernest hemingway. The last novel ernest hemingway saw published, the old man and the sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of american fiction.

Although hemingway said the old man, santiago, was based on nobody in particular, he most likely used aspects of his fishing buddy gregorio fuentes when 8.

He was an old man who fis. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. Set in the gulf stream off the coast of havana, hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish.