Living to tell the tale / Gabriel García Márquez ; translated by Edith Grossman.

Living to tell the tale / Gabriel García Márquez ; translated by Edith Grossman.

Vivir para contarla. English

1st ed.

1400041341
9781400041343
1400041066
9781400041060

New York : A.A. Knopf, 2003.

English

483 pages : maps ; 25 cm

863.64 G216li 2003

(OCoLC)52821132
(OCoLC)52821132

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.

Online version: García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928- Vivir para contarla. English. Living to tell the tale. 1st ed. New York : A.A. Knopf, 2003

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