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| Record 71 of 117 |
| | Author | | Massie, Allan
| | | Title | | "Memories of My Melancholy Whores: Old Age With a touch of Magic," The Scotsman
| | | Publisher | | The Scotsman Publications | | | Publication place | | Edinburgh, Scotland | | | Publication year | | October 29, 2005 | | | Page | | 9 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores Allan Massie states that "The novella is really a meditation on old age, that time of life when reality itself can appear, as the narrator remarks, "fantastic"...The old may feel as intensely as they ever did in their youth. But what they feel seems in them incredible, absurd, or disgusting to those who have not yet arrived at the summit from which the read leads precipitously downhill to the grave." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 72 of 117 |
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| | | Title | | "Memories of My Melancholy Whrores," Kirkus Reviews
| | | Publisher | | Kirkus Reviews | | | Publication place | | New York, NY | | | Publication year | | June 1, 2005 | | | Page | | S8 | | | Volume | | 73 | | | Issue | | 11 | | | Notes | | This article reviews "Memories of My Melancholy Whores." The author quotes Knopf's publicity director, Nicholas Latimer, and states, "Latimer acknowledges that he was initially 'disappointed' the book wasn't longer--but says that it doesn’t read like a short book." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 73 of 117 |
| | Author | | Donahue, Deirdre
| | | Title | | ""Memories" Spread Like Thin Sheets," USA Today
| | | Publisher | | Gannett Company | | | Publication place | | McLean, VA | | | Publication year | | December 8, 2005 | | | Page | | Life 4D | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review Dierdre Donahue states, "Any writing from Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez is an event. The Colombian-born author wrote one of the great literary masterpieces of the past century, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Unfortunately, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, his first work of fiction in a decade, is pretty thin and a real letdown compared with his brilliant autobiography, Living to tell the Tale, published in 2003." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 74 of 117 |
| | Author | | Fogle, Ben
| | | Title | | "My Six Best Books," The Express
| | | Publisher | | Express Newspapers | | | Publication place | | London, UK | | | Publication year | | April 8, 2005 | | | Page | | Features; 53 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | Ben Fogle lists Gabriel García Márquez's book One Hundred Years of Solitude as one of his six best books. Fogle states that the book is "a complicated tale, like a patchwork, with a zillion characters. It's set in a Colombian town, and the focal point is a Latin American family." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 75 of 117 |
| | Author | | Fay, Sarah
| | | Title | | Narrative and Memoir. New Letters.
| | | Publisher | | University of Missouri-Kansas City | | | Publication place | | Kansas City, MO | | | Publication year | | 2004-2005 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | 71 | | | Issue | | 1 | | | Notes | | Fay reviews From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey, by Pascal Khoo Thwe and Living to Tell the Tale, by Gabriel García Márquez. Of Márquez's memoir she writes, "In reading Living to Tell the Tale, one never gets the sense that what is being documented is necessarily 'real.' Márquez was once quoted as having said, 'If you say there are elephants flying in the sky, people are not going to believe you. But if you say that there are four hundred and twenty-five elephants in the sky, people will believe you.'" | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 76 of 117 |
| | Author | | Eichenberger, Bill
| | | Title | | "Narrator Reflects on A Life of Lust Satisfied, Love Unrequited," Columbus Dispatch
| | | Publisher | | The Columbus Dispatch | | | Publication place | | Columbus, OH | | | Publication year | | October 30, 2005 | | | Page | | The Arts; Bookends; 07F | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In his review of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Bill Eichenberger discusses the narrator and states that "one needn't like a first-person narrator for a novel to be successful, but one must at least find that narrator interesting. The reclusive narrator of Gabriel García Márquez's first work of fiction in 10 years...is indeed interesting." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 77 of 117 |
| | Author | | Leonard, John
| | | Title | | "New Books," Harper
| | | Publisher | | Harper & Brothers | | | Publication place | | New York, NY | | | Publication year | | November 2005 | | | Page | | 89-90 | | | Volume | | 311 | | | Issue | | 1866 | | | Notes | | John Leonard reviews "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" and states, "To be reductive and glib about Gabriel García Márquez's ravishing new novella, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, one could say that Death in Venice meets Lolita. Or that Ivan Ilyich hums along with J. Alfred Prufrock." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 78 of 117 |
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| | | Title | | "New Crop of Books Ready for Harvest," Sunday News
| | | Publisher | | Lancaster Newspapers, Inc | | | Publication place | | Lancaster, PA | | | Publication year | | September 4, 2005 | | | Page | | 5 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this Review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores it is stated that the book is about "a 90-year-old man who decides to give himself a night of love." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 79 of 117 |
| | Author | | Farry, Eithne
| | | Title | | "New Fiction," Daily Mail
| | | Publisher | | Associated Newspapers | | | Publication place | | London, UK | | | Publication year | | October 21, 2005 | | | Page | | 64 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores Eithne Farry states that the novel is "an elegiac fairytale that celebrates old age and the possibilities of rejuvenation." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 80 of 117 |
| | Author | | Morrison, Glen
| | | Title | | "Nothing Lost in Translation," Centralian Advocate
| | | Publisher | | Nationwide News Pty | | | Publication place | | Australia | | | Publication year | | December 6, 2005 | | | Page | | News; 6 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | Glen Morrison states, "Gabriel Gracía Márquez plumbs the nature of love and sex in his first literary offering in more than ten years, Memories of My Melancholy Whores." | | | URL | | | |
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