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One of Gabriel García Márquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant andthe corruption of power.
From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictator-ship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and real.
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Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia.Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. García Márquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera, and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale. There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since he passed away in April 2014.
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- PublisherLondon: Jonathan Cape, 1977.
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0224013947
- ISBN 13 9780224013949
- BindingHardcover
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. The book was first published in the US by Harper & Row the preceding year, and originally published in Spanish under the title 'El otoño del patriarca' in 1975. ***Very good in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Top and tail of spine slightly bumped. Corners sharp. With a contemporaneous gift inscription to the front free endpaper. Very light stain to outer margin of p17, not affecting the text, otherwise internal pages are clean throughout. The paper stock is slightly tanned. There is a very light production crease to some pages of the first gathering, affecting p20-36. Top edge of text-block stained blue (as called for), but slightly faded. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper which has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's printed price of £4.50 [many copies of this title are price-clipped by the publisher and re-priced with a sticker]. Orange spine lettering slightly faded. Dustwrapper clean. No tears. Spine and front and rear panels of dustwrapper bright and clean. 224mm x 146mm. 229 pages. ***'First the vultures arrive. The revolutionaries burst into the crumbling presidential palace of a modern Latin American country to find the rotting corpse of the dictator whose shadow has loomed over the advancing corruption of their country for almost a century. ***The Autumn of the Patriarch is an extraordinary achievement - a book with the same spell-binding force that established 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' as a masterpiece and Marquez as one of the great writers of our time. With each rolling incantation the tyrant is invoked: lover and son, puppet and symbol, man and monster. Image after image of brilliant clarity arises out of the resonant richness and potency of Marquez's language superbly translated by Gregory Rabassa.' (Quote from inside of front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the first UK edition, complete in its dustwrapper in nice bright condition. García Márquez's first novel following the worldwide success of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'. Of interest to collectors of Gabriel García Márquez and Latin American literature. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 6978
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