“I actually enjoyed this book a lot more than I expected to, coming in. This was my first venture into Hemingway, and I was delightfully surprised at the immediacy, the living quality to his prose, undivided by chapters or any other sort of editorial method. The novel, while short, is immersive within the life of a poor, starving old Havana fisherman and his struggle against the the world, the ocean, and a particular fish. The little ways in which this man talks to himself, musing absently on the nature of life, of luck, of human struggle and the fight to stay alive, are thoughtful and wise without seeming to be. Well worth reading; perhaps one of these days I'll get into Hemingway again. ”
Michael wrote this review Tuesday, October 6 2009.
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