Living to Tell the Tale
by Marquez, Gabriel Garcia; Grossman, Edith - Translator
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1400041341
- ISBN 13
- 9781400041343
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About This Item
Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc - A Borzoi Book, 2003. First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. 6" x 9 1/2. 483 Pages not Indexed. Maroon boards with silver spine and front lettering. Tight square book with no defects noted. In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez begins to tell the story of his own life. It spans his birth in 1927, the start of his career as a writer, and 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. This a radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of the author as a writer and as a man.
Synopsis
Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He lives in Mexico City.
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- Bookseller
- Dons Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13754
- Title
- Living to Tell the Tale
- Author
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia; Grossman, Edith - Translator
- Format/Binding
- Hard Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1400041341
- ISBN 13
- 9781400041343
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Inc - A Borzoi Book
- Place of Publication
- Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 6" x 9 1/2
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY MEMOIR COLUMBIA CHILDHOOD YOUTH WINNER NOBEL PRIZE LITERATURE
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