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Book........................The Old Man and the Sea
Author......................Ernest Hemingway
Narrator...................Donald Sutherland
Unabridged..............Yes
Genre.......................Classic Adventure
Publisher..................Simon Schuster Audio

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language
of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on
his luck, and his supreme ordeal, a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant
marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly
contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal
triumph won from loss.

Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed Hemingway's power and
presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954
Nobel Prize for Literature.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and
understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of
adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced
most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize
in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections and
two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three
non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered
classics of American literature.

Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he reported for a few
months for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to enlist
with the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and
returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to
Arms. In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. The
couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent, and fell under
the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s "Lost Generation"
expatriate community. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's first novel, was published in
1926.

After his 1927 divorce from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer.
They divorced after he returned from Spanish Civil War where he had acted as a
journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn
became his third wife in 1940. They separated when he met Mary Welsh in London
during World War II; during which he was present at the Normandy Landings and
liberation of Paris.

Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went on
safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two plane crashes that left him in
pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway had permanent
residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959
he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of
1961.

ABOUT THE READER

Donald McNichol Sutherland was born 17 July 1935 and is a Canadian actor whose film
career spans 50 years.
He graduated from Bridgewater High School then studied at Victoria College,
University of Toronto where he graduated with a double major in engineering and
drama. He changed his mind about becoming an engineer, and left Canada for Britain
in 1957 studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After quitting
the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Sutherland spent a year and a
half at the Perth Repertory Theatre in Scotland. In the early 1960s, Sutherland
began to gain small roles in British films and TV and never looked back.