The title character of this novel is called "salao", the worst kind of unlucky, by his closest friend's parents. It begins and ends with descriptions of the narrator's dream of lions at play on a beach, and that protagonist's 84-day run of bad luck seems broken when he encounters the novel's antagonist, whose 18 feet of fig
The title character of this novel is called "salao", the worst kind of unlucky, by his closest friend's parents. It begins and ends with descriptions of the narrator's dream of lions at play on a beach, and that protagonist's 84-day run of bad luck seems broken when he encounters the novel's antagonist, whose 18 feet of fight provide a titanic challenge. However, that antagonist is picked clean by sharks before the protagonist can get back to shore. Santiago is the title figure of, for 10 points, what novel, which won the 1953 Pulitzer for Fiction for Ernest Hemingway?
The title character of this novel is called "salao", the worst kind of unlucky, by his closest friend's parents.
The {Old Man} and the {Sea}