{"product_id":"living-to-tell-the-tale","title":"Living to Tell the Tale","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike all his work, 'Living to Tell the Tale' is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel Garcma Marquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt has the shape, the quality, and the vividness of a conversation with the reader - a tale of people, places, and events as they occur to him: the colorful stories of his eccentric family members; the great influence of his mother and maternal grandfather; his consuming career in journalism, and the friends and mentors who encouraged him; the myths and mysteries of his beloved Colombia; personal details, undisclosed until now, that would appear later, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction; and, above all, his fervent desire to become a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gabriel García Márquez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46689903411369,"sku":"9780141019109","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/tale.jpg?v=1766200061","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/living-to-tell-the-tale","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}