Living to Tell the Tale

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia;Grossman, Edith

ISBN 10: 1400041341 / ISBN 13: 9781400041343

Edité par Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003

A near fine first edition in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. First Edition stated on the copyright page. N° de réf. du vendeur 107482

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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Living to Tell the Tale
Éditeur : Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Date d'édition : 2003
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Near Fine
Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine
Edition : 1st Edition.