| No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories Contributor(s): Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060751576 ISBN-13: 9780060751579 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2005 Annotation: Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004051256 |
| Series: Perennial Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.34" W x 7.94" (0.34 lbs) 170 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys. |
Contributor Bio(s): Garcia Marquez, Gabriel: - Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia.Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. García Márquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera, and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale. There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since he passed away in April 2014. |