No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories - Hardcover

MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060114177 ISBN 13: 9780060114176

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1968

Synopsis

Hardcover book with price clipped dust jacket (mylar covered). Stated first edition; publisher: Harper and Row. 170 pages. Ex-library with usual indications. This edition is scarce as Marquez was just on his way to becoming a world class writer of great importance when this translation into English was published. These short stories are set in South America, and show the great command of language (and humor) that Marquez is noted for.

About this title

About the Author:

Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1928 in the town of Aracatca, Columbia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he is considered by many to be one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. Gabriel Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

Review:

''A rare combination of grace and vibrancy. Every scene, every gesture, signs life and denies death . . . He is an absolute master.'' --New York Times

''[These stories] are told in spare, unpretentious, but picturesque prose, compassionate of human frailty but also rich in wit and irony. The characters are all too human, alternately humorous and tragic.'' --Library Journal

''Garcia Marquez' style is direct and matter-of-fact; in attitude, he accepts these characters with the same inevitability as they accept the heat and the rain.'' --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

''García Márquez creates an absolute jewel of a novella in No One Writes to the Colonel, a story that evokes the entire range of human emotions from misplaced hope to blackest cynicism.'' --Oprah.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0060114177
• ISBN 13: 9780060114176
• Binding: Hardcover