Review:
"Garca Mrquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform." -- Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review
"It is the genius of Garca Mrquez that fatalism and possibility somehow coexist, that dreams redeem, that there is laughter even in death." -- John Leonard, New York Times
"Garc?a M?rquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform."--Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review
"It is the genius of Garc?a M?rquez that fatalism and possibility somehow coexist, that dreams redeem, that there is laughter even in death."--John Leonard, New York Times
"The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident and eloquent in their manner...They are the word cannot be avoided--magical."--John Updike, The New Yorker
The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident and eloquent in their manner...They are the word cannot be avoided--magical. --John Updike, The New Yorker"
Garc?a M?rquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform. --Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review"
It is the genius of Garc?a M?rquez that fatalism and possibility somehow coexist, that dreams redeem, that there is laughter even in death. --John Leonard, New York Times"
-The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident and eloquent in their manner...They are the word cannot be avoided--magical.---John Updike, The New Yorker
-Garc?a M?rquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform.---Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review
About the Author:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. He attended the University of Bogota and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. The author of three novellas (Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel and Chronicle of a Death Foretold) and several novels - In Evil Hour, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Love in a the Time of Cholera, the internationally bestselling One Hundred Years of Solitude and, more recently, The General in his Labyrinth - he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He lives in Mexico City.
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