Solitude & Company: The Life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

✍ Scribed by Paternostro, Silvana

• Book ID: 110475638
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 7 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781609808969

✦ Synopsis

An oral history biography of the legendary Latin American writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garc ia Marquez, brimming with atmosphere and insight.
Irrevent and hopeful, Solitude & Company recounts the life of a boy from the provinces who decided to become a writer. This is the story of how he did it, how little Gabito became Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and of how Gabriel Garcia Marquez survived his own self-creation.
The book is divided into two parts. In the first, BC, before Cien a ños de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude), his siblings speak and those who were friends before Garcia Marquez became the universally loved Latin American icon. Those who knew him when he still didn't have a proper English tailor nor an English biographer, and didn't accompany presidents. It gathers together the voices around the boy from the provinces, the sisters and brothers, the childhood friends,...