TY - BOOK AU - García Márquez,Gabriel AU - Hogan,Randolph TI - The story of a shipwrecked sailor: who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time SN - 0394548108 AV - PQ 8180.17 G216s 1986 U1 - 910/.091636 19 PY - 1986/// CY - New York PB - Knopf KW - Velasco, Luis Alejandro. KW - Naúfragos KW - Narraciones, anécdotas. KW - Colombia KW - Relatos colombianos KW - Novela colombiana N1 - Translation of: Relato de un náufrago N2 - Translated by Randolf Hogan. In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal ER -