Living To Tell The Tale
Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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 Garcia Marquez'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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books
- : Penguin Books
- : 01 September 2004
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- : Paperback
- : good-very good
- : 400