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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
Gerald S. Martin
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Description for Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
Paperback. The first comprehensive biography of the author of One Hundred Years Solitude and Love in a Time of Cholera - the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years. Num Pages: 688 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 51. Weight in Grams: 914. A Life. 688 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. The first comprehensive biography of the author of One Hundred Years Solitude and Love in a Time of Cholera - the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGL. Dimension: 232 x 153 x 51. Weight: 900.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the modern classic One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, is one of the greatest and most popular writers of the late-twentieth century. As Gerald Martin tells the story of the author's fascinating rise to wealth and international fame, he reveals the tensions in Garcia Marquez's life between celebrity and literary quality, between politics and writing, and between power, solitude and love. Interviewing more than three hundred people including Fidel Castro, Felipe Gonzalez, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa, the author's large family as well as 'Gabo' himself, Martin immerses ... Read more
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the modern classic One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, is one of the greatest and most popular writers of the late-twentieth century. As Gerald Martin tells the story of the author's fascinating rise to wealth and international fame, he reveals the tensions in Garcia Marquez's life between celebrity and literary quality, between politics and writing, and between power, solitude and love. Interviewing more than three hundred people including Fidel Castro, Felipe Gonzalez, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa, the author's large family as well as 'Gabo' himself, Martin immerses ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
688
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
913g
Number of Pages
688
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747596141
SKU
V9780747596141
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About Gerald S. Martin
Gerald Martin is Andrew Mellon Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Pittsburgh and president of the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature. Publications include Journeys Through the Labyrinth (1989), critical editions of Miguel Angel Asturias's Hombres de maiz (1992) and El Senor Presidente (2000), as well as several major contributions to the Cambridge History of Latin America.
Reviews for Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
'Gabriel Garcia Marquez once remarked that "every self-respecting writer should have an English biographer". He could have asked for none more accomplished than Gerald Martin' Angel Gurria-Quintana, Financial Times 'Gerald Martin has done a good job here in presenting the myths about the career, as well as debunking many of them' Philip Hensher, Spectator 'Masterful an ... Read more