TY  - BOOK
AU  - García Márquez,Gabriel
AU  - Grossman,Edith
TI  - Living to tell the tale
SN  - 1400041341
U1  - 863  22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - A.A. Knopf
KW  - García Márquez, Gabriel,
KW  - Garciá Márquez, Gabriel,
KW  - Authors, Colombian
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Écrivains colombiens
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Biographies
N2  - Publisher'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
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