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New Leaf Book Club - March: The Old Man and the Sea

I would like to nominate Ernest Hemingway's best book, made into a superb movie starring Spencer Tracy. The movie got one Oscar win, and two additional nominations. The book? It got a Pulitzer Prize.

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Originally Posted by Goodreads
It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic.
This is a short book (132 pages in hardcover), it's FREE in Canada and Life+50 countries, and is both powerful and approachable. Really, if you read no other Hemingway, read this one.

FadedPage -- FREE
AmazonUS -- $9.99 USD
AmazonUK -- £5.99
AmazonAU -- $2.04 AUD

KoboUS -- $6.49
KoboUK -- £5.49
KoboCA -- $0.99


AudibleUK -- £6.75 (or £5.99 WhisperSync)
AudibleUS -- $11.15 (or $8.49 WhisperSync )

I finally read this a couple of years ago when Hemingway became Public Domain in Canada. And I'd like to highly recommend it. Powerful, timeless, and a quite approachable read.
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