Living to Tell the Tale (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781400041343)

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 Garc a M rquez'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.

Living to Tell the Tale is a radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel Garc a M rquez as a writer and as a man.

Author: Gabriel García Márquez
ISBN-10: 1400041341
ISBN-13: 9781400041343
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 11/04/2003
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.69lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.32w x 1.49d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2003 pg. 59
Booklist 07/01/2003 pg. 1847
Booklist 10/01/2003 pg. 275
Booklist 10/15/2003 pg. 354
BookPage 11/01/2003 pg. 6
Newsweek 11/10/2003 pg. 65
Vanity Fair 12/01/2003 pg. 114
People Weekly 12/08/2003 pg. 55
Poder Hispanic 12/01/2003 pg. 68
Library Journal 11/15/2003 pg. 67
New York Times 11/16/2003 pg. 8
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2004 pg. 773
USA Today 12/03/2003 pg. 1
LJ Best Books of Year 01/01/2004 pg. 49
New York Times 12/07/2003 pg. 59
New York Review of Books 01/15/2004 pg. 20
Commonweal 03/26/2004 pg. 21
Choice 05/01/2004 pg. 1670
Library Journal 07/01/2003

About the Author
Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He lives in Mexico City.