| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
483 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014 -- Childhood and youth.
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García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014. |
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Authors, Colombian -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, Colombian. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Grossman, Edith, 1936-2023.
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| Added Title |
Vivir para contarla. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003054006
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| ISBN |
1400041341 |
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1400041066 |
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