The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway '....nothing showed on the surface of the water but some patches of yellow, sun-bleached Sargasso weed and the purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war floating close beside the boat.' His name is Santiago, and we are left to guess his age. What is …
Tag: Pulitzer Prize Novel
Anything for a Good Story
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson By naming his protagonist Jun Do, Adam Johnson sets both scene and tone for his 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. All the chief characters are North Korean and most of the action takes place in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea which, on the face of it, makes the …
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