{"product_id":"the-old-man-and-the-sea-1","title":"The Old Man and the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe book that won Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The best story Hemingway has written. No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The writing is as taut, and at the same time as lithe and cunningly played out, as the line on which the old man plays the fish' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 112 pages | Published February 1999\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63997013393757,"sku":"9780099273967","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9780099273967.jpg?v=1774584099","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/the-old-man-and-the-sea-1","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}