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Title: The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0-679-72205-X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 March, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Stunningly Vivid
Comment: This book is a marvel. The writing is so engaging in its simplicity and clarity. Vivid details abound in this account of Luis A. Velasco's ten days at sea in a little raft after he was swept overboard from his Colombian naval ship, en route from Mobile, Alabama to Cartagena, Colombia. He endured watching fellow crew members drown, followed by daily visits from sharks, intense sun that blistered his skin, near starvation and thirst, and fear. It's an amazing account of just what it is to survive, and not think or ponder about life, but just survive. And all with one oar bitten in half by a shark!
I've loved this author for a long time, and consider this early work of his a special treat. Stories of the sea can be so magnificent! I kept thinking of the Old Man and the Sea when reading this. Very highly recommended! You won't be able to put it down.
Rating: 5
Summary: A remarkable story of survival
Comment: "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor," by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, has an interesting history (which is described in a short introduction by the author). In 1955, 8 crew members of a Colombian naval vessel were washed overboard. One of them, Luis Alejandro Velasco, survived 10 harrowing days on a drifting life raft before reaching land. The sailor collaborated with Garcia Marquez to produce a series of newspaper articles about the ordeal; those articles eventually became this book, which has been translated into a very readable English by Randolph Hogan.
The book is written as the sailor's own first-person narrative. This is truly an amazing tale of endurance under some horrible conditions. Velasco describes his experiences in graphic detail: the harsh weather elements, the disorienting hallucinations, the times of despair. Particularly interesting are his encounters with a variety of marine animals. But it's not all suffering; there are moments of poetic beauty.
I've never experienced anything as harrowing as this. But as a U.S. Navy veteran, I can say that Garcia Marquez skillfully captures the wonder that can only be encountered at sea, far from land. An excellent book.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best one hundred pages I've read in a long time...
Comment: ...I read this book in Spanish as a teenager and loved it. Just ordered it for my teenager son and when it came I started reading it again and couldn't put it down. Excellent translation. Reads as well in English as in Spanish. Great piece of journalism.
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Title: In Evil Hour by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060919647 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 20 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060932678 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman ISBN: 1400041341 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0140239405 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0345310020 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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