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Solitude & Company: The Life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Told with Help from His Friends, Family, Fans, Arguers, Fellow Pranksters, Drunks, and a Few Respectable Souls

Irreverent and hopeful, `Solitude & Company` recounts the life of a boy from the provinces who decided to become a writer. This is the story of how he did it, how little Gabito became Gabriel Garcรญa Mรกrquez, and of how Gabriel Garcรญa Mรกrquez survived his own self-creation.The book is divided into two parts. In the first, “BC,” before `Cien Aรฑos de Soledad` (`One Hundred Years of Solitude`), his siblings speak, along with those who were friends before Garcรญa Mรกrquez became the universally loved Latin American icon–those who knew him when he still didn`t have a proper English tailor or an English biographer and didn`t accompany presidents, the drinking buddies and penniless fellow students.The second part, “AC,” describes the man behind the legend that Garcรญa Mรกrquez became. From Aracataca, to Barranquilla, to Bogotรก, to Paris, to Mexico City, the solitude that Garcรญa Mรกrquez needed to produce his masterpiece turns out to have been something of a raucous party whenever he wasn`t actually writing. Here are the writers Tomรกs Eloy Martรญnez, Edmundo Paz Soldรกn, and William and Rose Styron; legendary Spanish agent Carmen Balcells; the translator of `One Hundred Years of Solitude`, Gregory Rabassa; Marรญa Luisa Elรญo, to whom `One Hundred Years of Solitude` is dedicated; a great deal of music, especially the vallenato; the hilarious scenes of several hundred Colombians, Garcรญa Mรกrquez`s chosen delegation, flying to Stockholm for the Nobel Prize celebrations; the time Mario Vargas Llosa punched Gabriel Garcรญa Mรกrquez in the face; and much, much more.

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