Book description
i>, 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 Garca Mrquez'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 Gonzlez, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa, the author's
large family as well as Gabo' himself, Martin immerses himself in Garca
Mrquez's world. This at first tolerated' and now official' biography is
as gripping and revealing as the writer's journalism and as complex and
involving as any of his fiction. i>and
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'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 astonishing feat: a subtle tribute to a very complex man and an
indispensable key to his life's work' Ed King, Sunday Telegraph
'Martin blends the stories and novels superbly into his narrative ...
This first biography in English ... helps readers to ground his
exceptional fiction in history' Jason Wilson, Independent Book of the
Week
i>, 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 Garca Mrquez'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 Gonzlez, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa, the
author's large family as well as Gabo' himself, Martin immerses
himself in Garca Mrquez's world. This at first tolerated' and now
official' biography is as gripping and revealing as the writer's
journalism and as complex and involving as any of his fiction.
i>and Love in the Time of CholeraOne Hundred Years of Solitude
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