If you're looking for where to start in the Hemingway canon, know that you can't really go wrong. (For a man who wrote that he gets over writer's block by sitting down and writing the truest sentence that you know," this isn't altogether surprising.) The opening line of the book that helped him win the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, " The Old Man and the Sea," reads as a status report: "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish." Nicknamed the "iceberg theory" by Hemingway, much of his novels' meatiness (their nuances, their themes) lies looming beneath the surface. When you think of Ernest Hemingway - journalist, novelist, bullfighting aficionado - you probably think of the lean, understated prose that defines many American classics.
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