Living To Tell the Tale (First Edition)

García Márquez, Gabriel

ISBN 10: 1400041341 / ISBN 13: 9781400041343

Published by Knopf, New York, 2003

About this Item

A memoir translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First edition, stated. First printing. Quarter brown cloth over brown paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering. Fine in a very fine dust jacket, with a small red date stamp to top edge of text block and small bruise to lower edge. 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 covers his early life in Colombia through young adulthood and his first steps as a journalist and writer. It remained the only volume published, as the remaining two parts were not completed due to the author s declining health.

Seller Inventory # F3300-Marquez

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: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• 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.