The Resource Gabriel García Márquez : a life, by Gerald Martin
Gabriel García Márquez : a life, by Gerald Martin
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The item Gabriel García Márquez : a life, by Gerald Martin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
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The item Gabriel García Márquez : a life, by Gerald Martin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- xxiii, 642 p., [16] p. of plates
- Note
- Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2008
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780307271778
- Label
- Gabriel García Márquez : a life
- Title
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Title remainder
- a life
- Statement of responsibility
- by Gerald Martin
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1944-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Martin, Gerald
- Dewey number
-
- 863/.64
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PQ8180.17.A73
- LC item number
- Z718 2009
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Authors, Colombian
- Label
- Gabriel García Márquez : a life, by Gerald Martin
- Note
- Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2008
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 609-620) and index
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn251201707
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- xxiii, 642 p., [16] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780307271778
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009003806
- Other physical details
- ill., maps
- Label
- Gabriel García Márquez : a life, by Gerald Martin
- Note
- Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2008
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 609-620) and index
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn251201707
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- xxiii, 642 p., [16] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780307271778
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009003806
- Other physical details
- ill., maps
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