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Originally Posted by bookmarked
The Old Man and the Wasteland: Updated Edition (Revised) by Nick Cole (HarperCollins, 148 pages) was recently $0.99, now free.
"Part Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy's The Road, a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the post-apocalyptic American Southwest.
Forty years after the destruction of civilization, human beings are reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. One survivor's most prized possession is Hemingway's classic The Old Man and the Sea. With the words of the novel echoing across the wasteland, a living victim of the Nuclear Holocaust journeys into the unknown to break a curse.
What follows is an incredible tale of grit and endurance. A lone traveler must survive the desert wilderness and mankind gone savage to discover the truth of Hemingway's classic tale of man versus nature.
Now with a new introduction by author Nick Cole."
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This is seriously cheesy, as my personal review of
The Road was "a cheap knock-off of
the Old Man and the Sea (which, itself, is nothing special in the first place)."