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- Publisher: Vintage
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0307472868
- ISBN-13: 978-0307472861
- Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 3.6 x 20.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 658 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,138,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.2 out of 5 stars (14 customer reviews)
22 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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A marvelous biography of a literary giant and great writer, May 28 2009
By Yesh Prabhu, author of The Beech Tree - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez : A Life (Hardcover)
Gerald Martin's biography of the Nobel Laureate, "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life," is an extraordinary and gripping book. Rich in information and helpful insight regarding Gabriel Garcia's likes and dislikes and obsessions, this marvelous biography reads like a novel, and it is bound to fascinate its readers,Gabriel Garcia was less than a year old when his mother left him to the care of her parents. He was too young to have had any memories of her, and so when she returns six years later, he doesn't recognize her. He is deeply perplexed when he realizes that he does not love her. He does not love her because he did not even know her. She leaves him again, quite soon.
The author has written quite admirably about Gabriel Marquez's affair with the Spanish actress Tachia Quintana and Gabriel's friendship with Fidel Castro and his empathy with liberals and leftists.
Gerald Martin writes well. He is especially good at describing the small villages and towns and banana plantations of Colombia and its rich topography. His descriptions of Colombia's natural beauty are vivid. This biography grips a reader's attention from the very beginning, and holds it to the very end: "One hot, asphyxiating morning in the early 1930s, in the tropical coastal region of northern Colombia, a young woman gazed through the window of the United Fruit Company train at the passing banana plantations. Row after row after row, shimmering from sun into shade."
Those who love Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novels will find this book quite helpful in understanding several of his puzzling obsessions. For example, the author explains why Gabriel has written almost obsessively about illegitimate children in many of his novels: his family had so many of them! This is truly a very detailed, fascinating biography, meticulously written.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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A true insight into what makes Gabo tick, Jun 28 2009
By Sra. B-E - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez : A Life (Hardcover)
I have long been an avid reader of Latin American literature, but this biography sent me running to the Internet to find out more details about people and places mentioned in Gabriel García Márquez' life. Gerald Martin does a superb job of letting the reader penetrate the backgroud and the events that produced what many consider to be the world's masterpieces in Spanish. I read the entire book in two days, and I will read it yet again...well worth your time. Extremely well done. I especially loved the last paragraph!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Insightful Account of Latin America, Aug 6 2010
By Angela D. Spencer - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez : A Life (Hardcover)
A riveting account of one man and his relationships with his home country and the intertwining cause and effects of the associated western world, which transpired so eloquently in the biography. It provided a better understanding of the inspirations of his many writings.A. Spencer
Chicago
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