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ISBN
140004460X
Book Title
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Item Length
7.4 in
Original Language
Spanish
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year
2005
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.7 in
Author
Gabriel García Márquez
Genre
Fiction
Topic
General, Literary
Item Width
4.8 in
Item Weight
6.7 Oz
Number of Pages
128 Pages

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"Memories of My Melancholy Whores" is Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first work of fiction in ten years, written at the height of his powers, the Spanish edition of which Ilan Stavans called, "Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is disturbing" ("Los Angeles Times)." On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, our unnamed protagonist-an undistinguished journalist and lifelong bachelor-decides to give himself "the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin." The virgin, whom an old madam procures for him, is splendidly young, with the silent power of a sleeping beauty. The night of love blossoms into a transforming year. It is a year in which he relives, in a rush of memories, his lifetime of (paid-for) sexual adventures and experiences a revelation that brings him to the edge of dying-not of old age, but, at long last, of uncorrupted love. "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" is a brilliant gem by the master storyteller.

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
140004460x
ISBN-13
9781400044603
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Author
Gabriel García Márquez
Original Language
Spanish
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
128 Pages

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Item Length
7.4 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
4.8 in
Item Weight
6.7 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pq8180.17.A73m4613
Reviews
"Unforgettable. . . . Classic Márquez. " The Washington Post "García Marquez has composed, with his usual sensual gravity and Olympian humor, a love letter to the dying light." John Updike, The New Yorker "Luminous. . . . The cunning of Memories lies in the utterand utterly unexpected-- reliability of its narrator" The New York Times Book Review he cunning of Memories of My Melancholy Whores lies in the utter--and utterly unexpected--reliability of its narrator. "Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is disturbing." Los Angeles Times "As accomplished a piece of storytelling as you are likely to find on the shelves today."Chicago Tribune "Profoundly haunting. . . . Fiction of the very highest order." The Times Literary Supplement From the Trade Paperback edition., "Unforgettable. . . . Classic Márquez. " The Washington Post "García Marquez has composed, with his usual sensual gravity and Olympian humor, a love letter to the dying light." John Updike,The New Yorker "Luminous. . . . The cunning ofMemorieslies in the utterand utterly unexpected-- reliability of its narrator" The New York Times Book Review he cunning of Memories of My Melancholy Whores lies in the utter--and utterly unexpected--reliability of its narrator. "Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is disturbing." Los Angeles Times "As accomplished a piece of storytelling as you are likely to find on the shelves today."Chicago Tribune "Profoundly haunting. . . . Fiction of the very highest order."The Times Literary Supplement From the Trade Paperback edition., "Unforgettable. . . . Classic Marquez." -"The Washington Post" "Garcia Marquez has composed, with his usual sensual gravity and Olympian humor, a love letter to the dying light." -John Updike, "The New Yorker" "Luminous. . . . The cunning of "Memories" lies in the utter-and utterly unexpected-- reliability of its narrator" -"The New York Times Book Review" he cunning of Memories of My Melancholy Whores lies in the utter--and utterly unexpected--reliability of its narrator. "Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is disturbing." -"Los Angeles Times" "As accomplished a piece of storytelling as you are likely to find on the shelves today."-"Chicago Tribune" "Profoundly haunting. . . . Fiction of the very highest order."" "-"The Times Literary Supplement" "From the Trade Paperback edition."
Copyright Date
2005
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2005-043591
Dewey Decimal
863/.64
Dewey Edition
22

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  • by addendum54
    Oct 23, 2019Top favourable review

    A must read

    I have read a number of times all the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This book is one of his best. If new to this author start with One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: second.sale

  • by 8f8Gh5bDQhq@Deleted
    Feb 10, 2015

    A Great Love Story

    Nobel Prize winner wrote this book in 2005, one of the last masterpieces of his life. Please DO NOT be put off by the title, Marquez does like shock value in his work, which are mixtures of fable and fantastic themes. THIS IS A GREAT LOVE STORY. It is the story of a dying man finding love to his surprise at the age of ninety. When he meets his love, he exclaims, "But how can a man who has once strayed into heaven ever hope to make terms with the earth?" Finding The One is a singular serendipity, and as Marquez points out when he finds The One, " I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not blissful and comfortable, love." (My translation of that line). I have found from experience that love is invincible and not always confined to just one lifetime, ...

  • by psdc2
    Oct 22, 2018

    Love this author. Love books vs Kindle like to fall asleep with a book. Collecting.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: betterworldbooks

  • by jillian--jiggs
    Aug 13, 2008

    Melancholy Whores

    A beautifully vivid text to fall into and utterly loose yourself in. 'Memories Of My Melancholy Whores' is authored by the admirable Gabriel Marquez -best known for the book 'One-Hundred Years of Solitude'- whose narration is overcome with a realness that is difficult to find in literature today. Highly recommended.

  • by newsurfer06
    Nov 19, 2009

    Memories of My Melancholy Whores

    "It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things," Garcia Marquez writes in his first novel in ten years, "Though memory does not often fail with regard to things that are of real interest to us."

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