- Paperback: 311 pages
- Publisher: HarperPerennial; 1st HarperPerennial Ed edition (Nov 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060913061
- ISBN-13: 978-0060913069
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.5 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,595,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident and eloquent in their manner...They are the word cannot be avoided--magical."--John Updike, The New Yorker
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The twenty-six always compelling, often astonishing, stories in this collection are published in chronological order, so readers can appreciate the Nobel prize-winning writer's progress from early experimentation, to full-blown magical realism. Each tale is not just a read, but an experience: you join a community in the thrall of a corpse in "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"; sail through "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" a five-page story written as a single sentence, and feel your way, blinded, through "The Night of the Curlews". 'A single sentence of Garcia Marquez often has more meat to it than many whole novels' - "Observer".
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
These are short stories written with long sentences - sentences
that say more than many authors can in a whole chapter of writing.If you haven't read Marquez before,read these stories -
their brevity gives you a chance to recover from the shock of the distance from the start of a sentence to its end!
Marquez is a master at making readers want to belive the unreal as he moves from one fantastic image to another,always linking the images with something known and tangible.When I read my first ever Marquez sentence,I smiled - his writing causes an immediate and positive reaction.
that say more than many authors can in a whole chapter of writing.If you haven't read Marquez before,read these stories -
their brevity gives you a chance to recover from the shock of the distance from the start of a sentence to its end!
Marquez is a master at making readers want to belive the unreal as he moves from one fantastic image to another,always linking the images with something known and tangible.When I read my first ever Marquez sentence,I smiled - his writing causes an immediate and positive reaction.
Format:Paperback
This collection didn't hold my interest, unfortunately - I gave up part way through. A disappointment, especially since I have enjoyed his other work so much (especially Love in the Time of Cholera). Felt overwrought and lacked substance.
Format:Paperback
If your mind goes as far as the street outside, turns around and goes back in the house - read this and your imagination may get the idea. Magical realism at it's best, so good Louis de Bernieres did a good job of imitating it, can't blame him!
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