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_b.A73 2004
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100 1 _aGarca̕ Mr̀quez, Gabriel,
_d1928-
_921271
240 0 0 _aVivir para contarla.
_lEnglish
245 1 0 _aLiving to tell the tale /
_cGabriel Garca̕ Mr̀quez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
250 _a1st Vintage International ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bVintage International,
_c2004.
300 _a533 p:
_bmap,
_c21 cm.
520 _aPublisher'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
600 1 0 _aGarca̕ Mr̀quez, Gabriel,
_d1928-
_xChildhood and youth.
_921272
650 0 _aAuthors, Colombian
_y20th century
_vBiography.
_921273
700 1 _aGrossman, Edith,
_d1936-
_4trl
_921274
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_cBOOK
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