| Living to Tell the Tale: An Autobiography Contributor(s): García Márquez, Gabriel (Author), Grossman, Edith (Translator) |
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ISBN: 140003454X ISBN-13: 9781400034543 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: No writer alive today exerts the magical appeal of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 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 Garcia Marquez'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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - History | Latin America - South America |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.38" W x 7.98" (0.88 lbs) 544 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: No writer of his time exerted the magical appeal of Gabriel Garc a M rquez. In this long-awaited autobiography, the great Nobel laureate tells the story of his life from his birth in1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction. Here is Garc a M 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. |