Gabriel García Márquez: a life

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The biography of the 1982 Nobel Laureate in Literature tells the story of Márquez, a young man who rose from obscure provincial journalist to progenitor of a new literature.

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Title Statements

Full title :Gabriel García Márquez : a life / Gerald Martin.

Summary

The biography of the 1982 Nobel Laureate in Literature tells the story of Márquez, a young man who rose from obscure provincial journalist to progenitor of a new literature.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.
Edition:1st Vintage books ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Vintage Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

Notes

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2009.

The Physical Object

Description:xxiii, 642 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, maps ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780307472861, 0307472868
oclc:ocn658009741
LC Classification:PQ8180.17.A73
Dewey Decimal:863/.64

Prologue: From origins obscure (1800-1899) -- Part I: Home: Colombia: 1899-1955. Of colonels and lost causes (1899-1927) ; The house at Aracataca (1927-1928) ; Holding his grandfather's hand (1929-1937) ; Schooldays: Barranquilla, Sucre, Zipaquirá (1938-1946) ; The university student and the "Bogotazo" (1947-1948) ; Back to the Costa: an apprentice journalist and a bohemian group (1950-1053) ; Back to Bogotá: the ace reporter (1954-1955). -- Part II: Abroad: Europe and Latin America: 1955-1967. The discovery of Europe: Rome (1955) ; Hungry in Paris: "La Bohème" (1956-1957) ; Beyond the Iron Curtain: Eastern Europe during the Cold War (1957) ; Venezuela and Columbia: the birth of Big Mama (1958-1959) ; The Cuban Revolution and the USA (1959-1961) ; Escape to Mexico (1961-1964) ; Melquíades the magician: "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1965-1966) ; Fame at last (1966-1967). -- Part III: Man of the world: celebrity and politics: 1967-2005. Barcelona and the Latin American boom: between literature and politics (1967-1970) ; The solitary author slowly writes: "The Autumn of the Patriarch" and the wider world (1971-1975) ; Chile and Cuba: García Márquez opts for the revolution (1973-19…

Subjects

Authors, Colombian Authors, Colombian -- Biography. -- 20t… Biographies Biography Écrivains colombiens -- Biographies. --… García Márquez, Gabriel Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, 1928-