READ MORE: Doctor Who: Origins #4 – Comic ReviewĪs he reaches eighty five days without making a single catch, Santiago head out into the Gulf Stream, hoping to finally find something. His only real friend, a young man who used to work on his boat with him, has had to leave to work on other ships, leaving Santiago to fish alone. This bad luck extends and soon he’s failed to catch anything for more than eighty days.
Santiago is incredibly poor, and barely gets by as he hits a patch of bad luck, and begins to come back without catching any fish for the day. The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of Santiago, an ageing fisherman who lives in a small coastal town in Cuba. This short novella very quickly became a bestseller and award winner, as well as revitalising the career of its author all in a relatively small package. And whilst many of these are older books, written more than a hundred years ago, The Old Man and the Sea stands out amongst them for being relatively modern, and for also not even being a full novel.
There are a few books in the world that carry the term classic, that are considered some of the greats in literature.
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