Living To Tell the Tale (First Edition)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ISBN 10: 1400041341 / ISBN 13: 9781400041343

Published by Knopf (New York), 2003

About this Item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth over brown paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($26.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Octavo, 486 pages. This first volume of García Márquez's projected three-part autobiography, covering his early life in Colombia through his young adulthood and beginnings as a journalist and writer. This was the only volume published, as the remaining two parts were never completed due to the author's declining health. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Rear copies.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Living To Tell the Tale (First Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf (New York)
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1400041341
• ISBN 13: 9781400041343
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Latin American Literature

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Synopsis

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, his own.

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

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.