Love In The Time Of Cholera
$39.04
- Hardcover
422 pages
- Release Date
15 August 1997
Summary
There are novels, like journeys, which you never want to end—this is one of them. One seventh of July at six in the afternoon, a woman of 71 and a man of 78 ascend a gangplank and begin one of the greatest adventures in modern literature. The man is Florentino Ariza, President of the Carribean River Boat Company; the woman is his childhood sweetheart, the recently widowed Fermina Daza. She has earache. He is bald and lame. Their journey up-river, at an age when they can expect “nothing more i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857152357 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857152352 |
| Author: | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 422 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 1997 |
| Weight: | 559g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 136mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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“A rich, commodious novel whose narrative power is matched only by its generosity of vision.” –“The New York Times”“A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy … humane, richly comic, almost unbearably touching and altogether extraordinary.” –“Newsweek”“The greatest luxury, as in all of Garcia Marquez’s books, is the eerie, entirely convincing suspension of the laws of reality … the agelessness of the human story as told by one of this century’s most evocative writers.” –Anne Tyler, “Chicago Sun-Times Book Week”“Revolutionary in daring to suggest that vows of love made under a presumption of immortality–youthful idiocy, to some–may yet be honored, much later in life when we ought to know better, in the face of the undeniable… . A shining and heartbreaking book.” –Thomas Pynchon, “The New York Times Book Review ““This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told.” –“The New York Times Book Review ”“A love story of astonishing power…. Altogether extraordinary.” –“Newsweek” “Brilliant, provocative…magical…splendid writing.” –“Chicago Tribune” “Beguiling, masterly storytelling…. Garcia Marquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile.” –“Newsday” “A sumptuous book…[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age.” –“The Washington Post Book World”
About The Author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was born near Aracataca, Colombia. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for a body of work that includes novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. His most famous works include Leaf Storm (1955), In Evil Hour (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), News of a Kidnapping (1996), Living to Tell the Tale (2002) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004). He lived in Mexico City.
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