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I suppose I should read this again, as it's been over 60 years since I was assigned it in junior high school, and I didn't care for it at the time. I think it's often assigned to that age group as a way to introduce Hemingway without some of the "adult" situations that arise in his novels and even in the later short stories. If I get around to rereading, I'll update this with a more thoughtful review. Don't hold your breath, though.
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In the Scribner Classics version of this book it is pointed out in the introduction that it was this book that renewed the interest in the rest of Hemingway's work, and continues to do that today. I would have to agree with this as I have only read this, and one other novel by Hemingway. "The Old Man and the Sea", for me sparked my interest in the rest of his work. It is a short tale of a man, a boy, and a fish but, aside from the enjoyable tale that Hemingway derived from a story he had been to
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