Living To Tell The Tale

GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel

ISBN 10: 1400041341 / ISBN 13: 9781400041343

Edité par Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003

A propos de cet article

First edition. Hardcover. First printing. The first book in an autobiographical series from the Nobel Prize winning author of "Love in the Time of the Cholera." Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. A fine copy in a very near fine price clipped dust jacket.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Living To Tell The Tale
• Éditeur: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1400041341
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781400041343
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Memoirs & Autobiographies

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Synopsis

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.

Living to Tell the Tale is a radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel García Márquez as a writer and as a man.

À propos de l?auteur

Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He lives in Mexico City.