Living to Tell the Tale [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003

Beschreibung

As new condition maroon boards/maroon cloth spine/silver front cover and spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Illustrated with map frontispiece. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. "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 Garcia Marquez'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 Columbia, 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. [The book] is a radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez as a writer and as a man.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001282

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Living to Tell the Tale [FIRST EDITION, ...

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2003

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition