02197nam a2200313u 4500 56896477 OCoLC 20250708135604.0 ta 100113s2004 nyub 000 0beng d 2003058924 140003454X (pbk.) 14.95 MNY MNY AJM eng spa TFWW PQ8180.17 .A73 2004 863/.64 B Garca̕ Mr̀quez, Gabriel, 1928- 21271 Vivir para contarla. English Living to tell the tale / Gabriel Garca̕ Mr̀quez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage International, 2004. 533 p: map, 21 cm. 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 Garca̕ Mr̀quez, Gabriel, 1928- Childhood and youth. 21272 Authors, Colombian 20th century Biography. 21273 Grossman, Edith, 1936- trl 21274 ddc BOOK 2932 2932 0 0 ABELJ abelj B 2016-10-26 0 B GARC 11488 2016-10-26 14.95 2016-10-26 BOOK