Ernest Hemingway · 1952 · sea

Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novella. Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who has gone eighty-four days without a catch, rows out alone from his village near Havana far into the Gulf Stream, where he hooks a giant marlin. For three days he is towed out to sea, killing the fish at last only to have the sharks strip it to bone on the long haul home - a defeat that is also a victory.

1. 1
   Cojímar

   The fishing village east of Havana where the old man Santiago lives, unlucky for eighty-four days, and rows out alone before dawn past the harbor into the dark water.

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   The Gulf Stream

   Far out in the deep current where Santiago hooks the great marlin, which tows his skiff for three days and nights before he can bring it alongside and kill it.

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   Cojímar

   The long row home with the marlin lashed alongside, the sharks tearing it to a skeleton in the night, until the old man drags himself back to shore with only the bones.