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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-101400041341

ISBN-139781400041343

eBay Product ID (ePID)2465111

Product Key Features

Original LanguageSpanish

Book TitleLiving to Tell the Tale

Number of Pages496 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicCaribbean & Latin American, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Latin America / South America

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorGabriel García Márquez

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight26.9 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-058924

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal863.64

SynopsisIn this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel Garc a M rquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It has the shape, the quality, and the vividness of a conversation with the reader--a tale of people, places, and events as they occur to him: the colorful stories of his eccentric family members; the great influence of his mother and maternal grandfather; his consuming career in journalism, and the friends and mentors who encouraged him; the myths and mysteries of his beloved Colombia; personal details, undisclosed until now, that would appear later, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction; and, above all, his fervent desire to become a writer. And, as in his fiction, the narrator here is an inspired observer of the physical world, able to make clear the emotions and passions that lie at the heart of a life--in this instance, his own. Living to Tell the Tale is a radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel Garc a M rquez as a writer and as a man., In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It has the shape, the quality, and the vividness of a conversation with the reader--a tale of people, places, and events as they occur to him: the colorful stories of his eccentric family members; the great influence of his mother and maternal grandfather; his consuming career in journalism, and the friends and mentors who encouraged him; the myths and mysteries of his beloved Colombia; personal details, undisclosed until now, that would appear later, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction; and, above all, his fervent desire to become a writer. And, as in his fiction, the narrator here is an inspired observer of the physical world, able to make clear the emotions and passions that lie at the heart of a life--in this instance, his own. Living to Tell the Tale is a radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel García Márquez as a writer and as a man.

LC Classification NumberPQ8180.17.A73Z47813

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by 13paris
Aug 11, 2020
My favorite author!
Well written and compelling. “Gabo”, the author of magical realism, tells his own story.
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