Living to tell the tale / Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014.

Contributor:

Grossman, Edith, 1936-2023.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Vivir para contarla. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014--Childhood and youth.

García Márquez, Gabriel.

García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014.

Authors, Colombian--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Colombian.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

533 pages : map ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage International edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage International, 2004.

Summary:

Publisher's description: 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.

ISBN:

140003454X

9781400034543

OCLC:

56896477

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