The Silent Season of a Hero

“I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing,” the old man said. “They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.” –Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

Author: Gay Talese
Source: Esquire
Published: Jul 1, 1966
Length: 33 minutes (8,370 words)
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