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The Old Man and the Sea is the last work of Fiction by Ernest Hemingway. This book is a critical examination of the original title by P. G. Rama Rao. Summary of the Book The Old Man and the Sea is a story about Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a fish, a giant marlin, out in the Gulf Stream. The story is considered to be an allegorical commentary on Hemingway’s previous works, and won him the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes. This book examines his aesthetic convictions, and literary achievement in writing this book. The author discusses how Hemingway melds symbolism and suggestion into his work, and teaches readers more about his style, manipulation of narrative perspective. Readers will also appreciate the philosophical theme of the ephemeral versus the everlasting predominant in the book, and will understand Hemingway’s genius better. About P. G. Rama Rao P. G. Rama Rao is a former Professor of English at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. He is a Fulbright Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor in the University of Massachusetts, where he studied the Hemingway documents in John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in 1981-82 and 1993, and taught special courses on the writer in the University. He has also written: The Poetic Rapture, Ernest Hemingway: A Study in Narrative Technique, Narrative Technique in British and American Fiction, and The Critic’s Eye.