Living to tell the tale
Publisher's description: 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 co…
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- Full title :Living to tell the tale / Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
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Publisher's description: 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.
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- Publication Date:2004, ©2003.
- Edition:1st Vintage International ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vintage International
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2004, ©2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:533 pages : : map ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:140003454X, 9781400034543
- oclc:ocm56896477
- LC Classification:PQ8180.17.A73
- Dewey Decimal:863.64
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