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| Record 81 of 117 |
| | Author | | Freeman, John
| | | Title | | "Old Man
| | | Publisher | | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | | | Publication place | | Atlanta, GA | | | Publication year | | December 4, 2005 | | | Page | | Arts &Books; 5K | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review John Freeman states, "The coin of a prostitute's transaction is not love but debasement. In Gabriel García Márquez's new novella, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," the Nobel Laureate uses this truth to skewer an aging newspaper columnist who believes, on the eve of his 90th birthday, that he has found true love in a bordello." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 82 of 117 |
| | Author | | Anderson, Hephzibah
| | | Title | | "Old Man Has a Thing For Sleeping Beauty," The Gazette
| | | Publisher | | CanWest MediaWorks | | | Publication place | | Montreal, Canada | | | Publication year | | January 7, 2006 | | | Page | | Weekend; Arts & Books; H7 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In reviewing Memories of My Melancholy Whores the author states, "The novel's narrative does creak with age, and its novella-length brevity suggests that García Márquez's stamina may be fading. Yet the author still manages to grace Melancholy Whores with passages of limber loveliness and pithy aphorisms." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 83 of 117 |
| | Author | | Creasy, Matthew
| | | Title | | "Older, Not Wiser Love Comes Late - Very Late - in Gabriel García Márquez
| | | Publisher | | The Financial Times Limited | | | Publication place | | London, UK | | | Publication year | | November 19, 2005 | | | Page | | Books; 38 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In his review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Creasy compares the book to Roth's The Dying Animal and concludes, "While Memories of My Melancholy Whores has certain charm, it lacks the historical sweep of the earlier novel, or any similar sense of substantial national allegory. Nor are its claims to present passion as convincing as, say, Love in the Time of Cholera. In its favor, the book is only 128 pages long. It may console you to know that you won't be much older by the time you finish it." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 84 of 117 |
| | Author | | Hernández, Ambar
| | | Title | | "On the Shelves" Hispanic
| | | Publisher | | Hispanic Publishing Corp. | | | Publication place | | United States | | | Publication year | | October 2005 | | | Page | | pp. 70-71 | | | Volume | | 18 | | | Issue | | 10 | | | Notes | | Ambar Hernández reviews: "The Scorpion's Tale," by Sylvia Torti; "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," by Gabriel García Márquez; "Ball Don't Lie," by Matt de la Peña. | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 85 of 117 |
| | Author | | Marchand, Philip
| | | Title | | "One Last Wild Night, Please," The Toronto Star
| | | Publisher | | Toronto Star Newspapers | | | Publication place | | Toronto, Canada | | | Publication year | | October 30, 2005 | | | Page | | Books; D07 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Philip Marchand compares the novel to Philip Roth's The Dying Animal, but states that "Marquez's culture, by contrast, is wiser. It recognizes that desire leads to suffering, and that suffering can also be delightful, in a way, but suffering ends in defeat, and defeat is a melancholy thing, to be sure." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 86 of 117 |
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| | | Title | | "Our Editors Recomended," San Francisco Chronicle
| | | Publisher | | The Chronicle Publishing Co. | | | Publication place | | San Francisco, CA | | | Publication year | | December 4, 2005 | | | Page | | Sunday Review; Our Editors Recomended; M2 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review the author states, "At a little more than 100 pages, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" is really more a novella than a novel and could appear to be a trifle in a large body of work. It is the author's first work of fiction in a decade, which is cause enough to celebrate, but it is also his best work of fiction in the past 20 years. It is an existential riff on the many qualities of love and a skillfully controlled and disciplined work of literature." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 87 of 117 |
| | Author | |
| | | Title | | "Out This Week," The Columbus Dispatch
| | | Publisher | | The Columbus Dispatch | | | Publication place | | Columbus, OH | | | Publication year | | October 24, 2005 | | | Page | | Features - Life; 03B | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In reviewing Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, The Columbus Dispatch quotes Publishers Weekly, which described the novel as a "slim, reflective contribution to the romance of the brothel" with "striking insights into the euphoria that is the flip side of the fear of death." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 88 of 117 |
| | Author | | Elliott, Helen
| | | Title | | "Refining Love To It
| | | Publisher | | Nationwide News | | | Publication place | | | | | Publication year | | October 29, 2005 | | | Page | | BooksReview; 16 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | This review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores is set up as a series of e-mails from Helen Elliot about the novel. In one of the e-mails she states that "Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a brilliant meditation on this matter of love and puts paid to any ideas of tranquility and old age. It's also a great place to begin reading Marquez because the great early books are daunting for those with a timid digestion when it comes to gaudy." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 89 of 117 |
| | Author | | Tait, Theo
| | | Title | | "Romantic Machismo Creates Enchanted Garden of Chaste Love: Fiction, National Post
| | | Publisher | | National Post | | | Publication place | | Ontario, Canada | | | Publication year | | November 12, 2005 | | | Page | | Weekend Post; Books; WP16 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | After describing the plot, Theo Tait concludes that the "point" is that "García Márquez threatens to present us with the horrifying spectacle of the old goat preying on the poor girl, and then endlessly defers it." He then goes on the state that "Memories of My Melancholy Whores seems like an old man's fever dream, full of bizarre, arresting meditations on love, nostalgia, and mortality." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 90 of 117 |
| | Author | | Mcgourty, John, Janet Hughes, Fiona Russell, Ray Chesterton
| | | Title | | "Saturday Books," Daily Telegraph
| | | Publisher | | Nationwide News | | | Publication place | | Sydney, Australia | | | Publication year | | November 26, 2005 | | | Page | | FEATURES; Saturday Books; 91 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this short review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores, John Mcgourty states, "While not his best, this 115-page novella gives a taste of Márquez's story-telling talent." He also states that the book is "a great first read for those intimidated by Márquez's weightier tomes." | | | URL | | | |
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