Living to Tell the Tale - Hardcover

García Márquez, Gabriel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1400041341 ISBN 13: 9781400041343

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group, 2003

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.

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Review:

An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny -- Mary Wesley, Sunday Telegraph

Marquez is the master weaver of the real and the conjectured. His descriptive powers astound. -- VS Pritchett, New Statesman

Marquez’s vision is quite the nearest thing to pure sensual pleasure that prose can offer -- Observer

Perhaps the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since Cervantes -- Pablo Neruda

From the Publisher:

The autobiography of one of the world's greatest writers

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1400041341
• ISBN 13: 9781400041343
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496