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Ending
reveal endingWhy Read This?The one-sentence sell. What do you get for showing up to this book, even when it's hard?
Synopsis
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.
MoodWhat you felt reading this. Swoony? Gutted? Deliciously unhinged? The emotional fingerprint.
3.81 ★ (1314.1k)
96 pages
1952
Other
Omniscient
reveal ending
Yes
Single Narrator (unspecified)
John Roberts
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