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Living to tell the tale / Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman

By:

García Márquez, Gabriel, (1928-2014)

Contributor(s):

Grossman, Edith

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Knopf , 2004, c1985.Description: 483 p. : maps ; 25 cmISBN:

9781400041343

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS 92 GAR

Summary: No writer alive today exerts the magical appeal of Gabriel Garcí a Má rquez. Now, in the long-awaited first volume of his autobiography, he tells the story of his life from his birth in 1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction. Here is Garcí a Má rquez' s shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Here are the members of his ebulliently eccentric family. Here are the forces that turned him into a writer. Warm, revealing, abounding in images so vivid that we seem to be remembering them ourselves, Living to Tell the Tale" "is a work of enchantment.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 92 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	11/11/2024	015000

Translation of: Vivir para contarla. "Portions appeared in The New Yorker, February 19, 2002, and in Zoetrope vol. 2, no. 3 (Fall 1998)"--T.p. verso.

No writer alive today exerts the magical appeal of Gabriel Garcí a Má rquez. Now, in the long-awaited first volume of his autobiography, he tells the story of his life from his birth in 1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction. Here is Garcí a Má rquez' s shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Here are the members of his ebulliently eccentric family. Here are the forces that turned him into a writer. Warm, revealing, abounding in images so vivid that we seem to be remembering them ourselves, Living to Tell the Tale" "is a work of enchantment.

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