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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE

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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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New York: Harper and Row, 1970. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition in like dustjacket. This is the first printing of the American edition of Marquez's classic in the second-state dustjacket with a period on the front flap instead of an exclamation point. The state of the jacket does not correlate to the book; books and jackets are printed separately and matched up after they are printed; it is pure chance which jacket goes on which book meaning one of the earliest printed copies of the book could have one of the last jackets printed. In any case, this is the first printing of the American edition of one of the great literary works of the 20th century. The book itself is in fine condition. The jacket bears the $7.95 price and is complete with no chips or tears, but showing very slight shelfwear along its edges. Both the book and the jacket are highly attractive and in overall fine condition. Published in 1967, One Years of Solitude is widely regarded as one of the most important works of 20th century literature and one of the great classics of Spanish literature. It is Marquez's most famous and important novel and set the path which led to his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

Synopsis

One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles the life of Macondo, a fictional town based in part of Garcia Marquez's hometown of Aracataca, Columbia, and seven generations of the founding family, the Buendias. He creates a complex world with characters and events that display the full range of human experience. For the reader, the pleasure of the novel derives from its fast-paced narrative, humor, vivid characters, and fantasy elements. In this 'magic realism', the author combines imaginative flights of fancy with social realism to give us images of levitating priests, flying carpets, a four-year-long rainstorm, and a young woman ascending to heaven while folding sheets" (NYPL Books of the Century 31).

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Bookseller
Kubik Fine Books Ltd, ABAA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
1235479
Title
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
Author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st American Edition
Publisher
Harper and Row
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1970
Weight
0.00 lbs

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