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A short novel by a great author named Ernest Hemmingway, , is the book I read. It was published in 1952. This book is “nearly faultless” as Malcolm Cowley of the New York Herald Tribune said. Other critics described it as a masterpiece, one of his b ....

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.... rows of raking teeth. In this novel, Hemmingway, with his descriptive details, make the characters sound so realistic; he makes them come “alive.” For eighty-four days, Santiago had not caught a single fish. At first Manolin had shared his bad luck, but after the fortieth day the boy’s father tells his son to go on another boat. From that time on, Santiago works alone. Each morning he rows his skiff into the Gulf Stream where the big fish are. Each evening he comes back empty-handed. On the eighty-fifth day Santiago rows out of the harbor before dawn. After leaving the smell of land behind him, he set his line. The line went s ....