| Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes Contributor(s): Strathern, Paul (Author), Whitfield, Robert (Read by) |
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ISBN: 0786179813 ISBN-13: 9780786179817 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: May 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Great Writers in 90 Minutes |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.74" W x 4.9" (0.23 lbs) |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Garcia Marquez stands on the shoulders of a great Latin American literary heritage. But he is also that modern rarity, a writer with aspirations to high art who also remains hugely popular. For those who fall under his spell, his novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is one of the richest literary dreams ever written. Its "magical realism" has influenced writers the world over. In Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Garcia Marquez's life and ideas and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand his place in the world. The 90 Minutes series includes brief but authoritative interpretations of the world's great writers, bringing their lives and ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion, and making them comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone. |
Contributor Bio(s): Whitfield, Robert: - Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over forty Earphones Awards. He has won thirteen prestigious Audie Awards and was Booklist's very first Voice of Choice in 2008. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. Strathern, Paul: -Paul Strathern earned a degree in philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, and has lectured in philosophy and mathematics. The author of many nonfiction books and of articles for numerous publications, he has also written several novels and has won the Somerset Maugham Prize. He lives and writes in London. |
