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100 1 _aGarcía Márquez, Gabriel,
_d1928-
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240 1 0 _aVivir para contarla.
_lEnglish
245 1 0 _aLiving to tell the tale /
_cGabriel García Márquez ; translated by Edith Grossman.
260 _aNew York :
_bA.A. Knopf,
_c2003.
300 _a483 p. :
_bmaps ;
_c25 cm.
520 _aPublisher'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,
600 1 0 _aGarcía Márquez, Gabriel,
_d1928-
_xChildhood and youth.
_915743
600 1 6 _aGarciá Márquez, Gabriel,
_d1928-
_tDel amor y otros demonios.
_915744
650 0 _aAuthors, Colombian
_y20th century
_vBiography.
_915745
650 6 _aÉcrivains colombiens
_y20e siècle
_vBiographies.
_915746
700 1 _aGrossman, Edith,
_d1936-
_96451
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