Innocent Erendira and Other Stories.
by Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0060114169
- ISBN 13
- 9780060114169
- Seller
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Langley, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Harper & Row,, 1978.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This collection features the novella "Innocnet Erendia" and eleven short stories. This collection of fiction, representing some of Garcia Marrquez's earlier work, includes the novella, Innocent Erenndira, in which a young girl who dreams of freedom cannot escape the reach of her vicious and avaricious grandmother.
Synopsis
Innocent Erendira and Other Stories is a collection of short stories from the Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez). 'Erendira was bathing her grandmother when the wind of misfortune began to blow.' While her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to bed, Erendira still has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. The never-ending chores leave the young girl so exhausted that's he collapses into bed with the candle still glowing on a nearby table - and is fast asleep when it topples over...Eight hundred and seventy-two thousand, three hundred and fifteen pesos, her grandmother calculates, is the amount that Erendira must repay for the loss of the house. As she is dragged by her grandmother from town to town and hawked to soldiers, smugglers and traders, Erendira feels herself dying. Can the love of a virgin save the young whore from her hell? It becomes more and more fun to read. It shows what fabulous really means. (Time Out). Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do. (Salman Rushdie). One of this century's most evocative writers. (Anne Tyler).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gregor Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26541
- Title
- Innocent Erendira and Other Stories.
- Author
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060114169
- ISBN 13
- 9780060114169
- Publisher
- Harper & Row,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1978.
- Keywords
- Literature
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