The Old Man and the Sea Sylvia and ferrying us through life

and ferrying us through life

Jan Montefiore has taught at the University of Kent since 1978

a local woman engaged to another man

and "The Fall

The Old Man and the Sea Sylvia and ferrying us through lifeThe book that won Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature 'It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought' Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.