Living to Tell the Tale: An Autobiography (Vintage International) - Softcover

García Márquez, Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140003454X ISBN 13: 9781400034543

Verlag: Vintage, 2004

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A first volume of a planned autobiographical trilogy spans the period between the Nobel laureate's birth in 1927 to his 1950 proposal to his wife, discussing such topics as his love for Colombia, the impact of literature and music on his life, and how his written works reflect his life. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 175,000 first printing.

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-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

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 140003454X
• ISBN 13: 9781400034543
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 544