Gabriel García Márquez a life

The biography of the 1982 Nobel Laureate in Literature tells the story of Márquez, a young man who rose from obscure provincial journalist to progenitor of a new literature.

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Main Author: Martin, Gerald, 1944-
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Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
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245 1 0 |a Gabriel García Márquez  |h [eBook] :  |b a life /  |c Gerald Martin. 
260 |a New York :  |b Alfred A. Knopf,  |c 2009. 
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500 |a Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2008. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 703-718). 
520 |a The biography of the 1982 Nobel Laureate in Literature tells the story of Márquez, a young man who rose from obscure provincial journalist to progenitor of a new literature. 
505 0 |a Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Foreword -- Prologue : from origins obscure (1800-1899) -- pt. I. Home : Colombia : 1899-1955 -- 1. Of colonels and lost causes (1899-1927) -- 2. The house at Aracataca (1927-1928) -- 3. Holding his grandfather's hand (1929-1937) -- 4. Schooldays : Barranquilla, Sucre, Zipaquirá (1938-1946) -- 5. The university student and the Bogotazo (1947-1948) -- 6. Back to the Costa : an apprentice journalist in Cartagena (1948-1949) -- 7. Barranquilla, a bookseller and a Bohemian group (1950-1953) -- 8. Back to Bogotá : the ace reporter (1954-1955) -- pt. II. Abroad : Europe and Latin America : 1955-1967 -- 9. The discovery of Europe : Rome (1955) -- 10. Hungry in Paris : La Bohème (1956-1957) -- 11. Beyond the Iron Curtain : Eastern Europe during the Cold War (1957) -- 12. Venezuela and Colombia : the birth of Big Mama (1958-1959) -- 13. The Cuban Revolution and the USA (1959-1961) -- 14. Escape to Mexico (1961-1964) -- 15. Melquíades the Magician : One hundred Years of Solitude (1965-1966) -- 16. Fame at last (1966-1967) -- pt. III. Man of the world : celebrity and politics : 1967-2005 -- 17. Barcelona and the Latin American boom : between literature and politics (1967-1970) -- 18. The solitary author slowly writes : The Autumn of the Patriarch and the wider world (1971-1975) -- 19. Chile and Cuba : García Márquez opts for the Revolution (1973-1979) -- 20. Return to literature : Chronicle of a Death Foretold and the Nobel Prize (1980-1982) -- 21. The frenzy of renown and the fragrance of Guava : Love in the Time of Cholera (1982-1985) -- 22. Against official history : García Márquez's Bolívar (The General in His Labyrinth) (1986-1989) -- 23. Back to Macondo? News of a historic catastrophe (1990-1996) -- 24. García Márquez at seventy and beyond : memoirs and melancholy whores (1996-2005) -- Epilogue : immortality--the new Cervantes (2006-2007) -- Appendix. Family trees -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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