Garca̕ Mr̀quez, Gabriel 1928- creator Grossman, Edith 1936- trl text biography nyu New York Vintage International 2004 1st Vintage International ed. monographic eng spa

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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 Gabriel Garca̕ Mr̀quez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Garca̕ Mr̀quez, Gabriel 1928- Childhood and youth Authors, Colombian 20th century Biography PQ8180.17 .A73 2004 863/.64 B 140003454X (pbk.) 2003058924 MNY 100113 20250708135604.0 56896477