García Márquez, Gabriel 1927-2014 creator Grossman, Edith 1936- text biography nyu New York A.A. Knopf 2003 monographic eng spa

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483 p. : maps ; 25 cm. 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 Garca Mr̀quez'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, his own. Gabriel García Márquez ; translated by Edith Grossman. García Márquez, Gabriel 1927-2014 Childhood and youth Authors, Colombian 20th century Biography PQ 8180.17 G216v 2003 863 1400041341 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random055/2003058924.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0414/2003058924.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random055/2003058924.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0414/2003058924.html DLC 030806 20230410130930.0 spa