Living to Tell the Tale

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 Garca MrquezS 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 Garca Mrquez As A Writer And As A Man.