Author: GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL
Title: Living to Tell the Tale / Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; Translated by Edith Grossman
Description: New York : A. A. Knopf 2003. First Edition. 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. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 484 pages; Description: 483 p. : maps ; 25 cm. Subjects: Garcia Marquez. Gabriel (1928-) --Childhood and youth --Authors. Colombian --20th century --Biography.ISBN: 1400041341. Weight in Kg appr.:

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