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Living to Tell the Tale Hardcover - 2003
by García Márquez, Gabriel & Edith Grossman
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From the Nobel Laureate writer Marquez comes a magnificent piece of writing that finds him telling the story of his life from his birth in 1927 through his career as a writer.
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Details
- Title Living to Tell the Tale
- Author García Márquez, Gabriel & Edith Grossman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; First Printing
- Condition Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Pages 496
- Language EN
- Publisher Knopf, New York
- Date 2003
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 29032
- ISBN 9781400041343
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
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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 Garcia Marquez'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 Garcia Marquez as a writer and as a man.
Like all his work, "Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel Garcia Marquez'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 Garcia Marquez as a writer and as a man.
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Citations
- Booklist, 07/01/2003, Page 1847
- Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/01/2004, Page 773
- BookPage, 11/01/2003, Page 6
- Choice, 05/01/2004, Page 1670
- Commonweal, 03/26/2004, Page 21
- Library Journal, 11/15/2003, Page 67
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 07/01/2003, Page 59
- LJ Best Books of Year, 01/01/2004, Page 49
- New York Review of Books, 01/15/2004, Page 20
- New York Times, 11/16/2003, Page 8
- Newsweek, 11/10/2003, Page 65
- People Weekly, 12/08/2003, Page 55
- Poder Hispanic, 12/01/2003, Page 68
- USA Today, 12/03/2003, Page 1
- Vanity Fair, 12/01/2003, Page 114
