Download or read book A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes written by Rodrigo Garcia and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone who has ever entered the glorious literary world of Gabriel García Márquez.”—Salman Rushdie “In A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes Rodrigo Garcia finds the words that cannot be said, the moments that signal all that is possible to know about the passage from life to death, from what love brings and the loss it leaves. With details as rich as any giant biography, you will find yourself grieving as you read, grateful for the profound art that remains a part of our cultural heritage.”—Walter Mosley, New York Times bestselling author of Down the River Unto the Sea “An intensely personal reflection on [Garcia's] father's legacy and his family bonds, tender in its treatment and stirring in its brevity.”—Booklist (starred review) The son of one of the greatest writers of our time—Nobel Prize winner and internationally bestselling icon Gabriel García Márquez—remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss. In March 2014, Gabriel García Márquez, one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century, came down with a cold. The woman who had been beside him for more than fifty years, his wife Mercedes Barcha, was not hopeful; her husband, affectionately known as “Gabo,” was then nearly 87 and battling dementia. I don't think we'll get out of this one, she told their son Rodrigo. Hearing his mother’s words, Rodrigo wondered, “Is this how the end begins?” To make sense of events as they unfolded, he began to write the story of García Márquez’s final days. The result is this intimate and honest account that not only contemplates his father’s mortality but reveals his remarkable humanity. Both an illuminating memoir and a heartbreaking work of reportage, A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes transforms this towering genius from literary creator to protagonist, and paints a rich and revelatory portrait of a family coping with loss. At its center is a man at his most vulnerable, whose wry humor shines even as his lucidity wanes. Gabo savors affection and attention from those in his orbit, but wrestles with what he will lose—and what is already lost. Throughout his final journey is the charismatic Mercedes, his constant companion and the creative muse who was one of the foremost influences on Gabo’s life and his art. Bittersweet and insightful, surprising and powerful, A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes celebrates the formidable legacy of Rodrigo’s parents, offering an unprecedented look at the private family life of a literary giant. It is at once a gift to Gabriel García Márquez’s readers worldwide, and a grand tribute from a writer who knew him well. “You read this short memoir with a feeling of deep gratitude. Yes, it is a moving homage by a son to his extraordinary parents, but also much more: it is a revelation of the hidden corners of a fascinating life. A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes is generous, unsentimental and wise.” —Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling “A warm homage filled with both fond and painful memories.” —Kirkus "Garcia’s limpid prose gazes calmly at death, registering pain but not being overcome by it . . . the result is a moving eulogy that will captivate fans of the literary lion." — Publishers Weekly
Download or read book A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes written by Rodrigo García and published by HarperVia. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes A Son s Memoir of Gabriel Garc a Marquez and Mercedes Barcha written by Rodrigo Garcia and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of one of the greatest writers of our time—Nobel Prize winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel García Márquez—remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss.
Download or read book A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes written by Rodrigo Garcia and published by HarperVia. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of one of the greatest writers of our time--Nobel Prize winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel García Márquez--remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss.
Download or read book The 60 Something Crisis written by Barbara L. Pagano and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Circumvent the tired and conventional approaches of finding purpose, passion, or happiness to discover a path of fulfillment after 60 by pursuing desires, mastering risk-taking, and expanding horizons with confidence. The crisis of unfulfilled lives unfolds gradually, often with acquiesced boredom and a flimsy search for purpose. Our relevancy comes into question, or we succumb to the idea that the future will be one of slow-moving ambition and then an even slower glide into comfort as the flush of freedom fades. We can change this outcome if we want to. We should want to. The 60-Something Crisis: How to Live an Extraordinary Life in Retirement (a 2023 Nautilus Book Award winner) is the first book to circumvent the tired and conventional approaches of finding purpose, passion, or happiness, or using reinvention to discover a path of fulfillment after 60. It presents a clear, practical framework through four portals—geography of place, yield, kinship, and freedom—to navigate and support future well-being and happiness. Readers will learn how to pursue desires, not roadmaps, to increase self-confidence and master risk-taking, and will discover the power and potential of investing in themselves at this time of life. Barbara L. Pagano provides the foundation for taking on or taking back late-stage growth and shifts the conversation from “What’s next?” to “What do I need to know, what do I need to do now, and how soon can I get started?” This book is more than happy talk. Pre-retirees on the brink of a major life transition or retirees who want more from life will find themselves pulled toward a higher target of well-being that endures. Mature adults, now novices in an unfamiliar, uncharted landscape, will welcome a smart, well-written, practical, and poignant guide to hustle them forward, anchored in an award-winning author’s deeply personal experience, well-researched content, and over 200 interviews with retirees and pre-retires. The 60-Something Crisis offers a powerful message for the last third of life.
Download or read book Gabo y Mercedes una despedida written by Rodrigo García and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En marzo de 2014, Gabriel García Márquez, probablemente el escritor más querido en lengua española del siglo XX, ya anciano y enfermo, cayó resfriado. "De esta no salimos", le dijo Mercedes Barcha, su esposa desde hacía más de cincuenta años, a Rodrigo, el hijo de ambos. Estas páginas son la crónica más íntima y honesta de los últimos días de un genio, escrita con la asombrosa precisión y la distancia justa de un testigo de excepción: el propio Rodrigo. Así vemos el lado más humano de un personaje universal y de la mujer en la que se fijó cuando era una niña de nueve años, que le acompañó toda la vida y que apenas le sobrevivió unos años. Este relato, entreverado de recuerdos de una vida irrepetible, es la más hermosa despedida al hijo del telegrafista y su esposa.
Download or read book Les adieux Gabo Mercedes written by Rodrigo García and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En mars 2014, la santé de l'écrivain et prix Nobel de littérature Gabriel García Márquez, déjà atteint de démence sénile, se dégrade brutalement. Mercedes Barcha, sa femme, glisse à leur fils Rodrigo : " Cette fois-ci, nous ne pourrons rien faire. " Face à l'inéluctable, Rodrigo García décide de retracer les derniers jours de son père et de l'écrivain vénéré de son vivant. Il évoque sa vie, ses passions, sa puissance créatrice en regard de ses capacités diminuées des dernières années, avec émotion et retenue. Que reste-t-il ? Qui reste-t-il jusqu'à la toute fin ? Les adieux à Gabo et Mercedes fait passer du statut d'auteur à celui de protagoniste l'immense génie que fut Garcia Marquez, et brosse le portrait subtil d'un homme dont l'humour brille alors même que sa lucidité décroît. Un texte mélancolique et puissant qui célèbre l'héritage transmis par les parents de Rodrigo García, et offre un regard inédit sur la vie intime d'un géant de la littérature. Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Catherine Richard-Mas. Rodrigo Garcia est né en Colombie et a grandi à Mexico avant d'intégrer l'Université d'Harvard. Il est le réalisateur et scénariste de plusieurs longs métrages, dont Nine Lives, Albert Nobbs, et Four Good Days. Il a également réalisé les séries télévisées Six Feet Under, Les Soprano et un pilote de Big Love, pour lequel il a reçu une nomination aux Emmy, ainsi que plusieurs épisodes de la série In Treatment, diffusée par HBO.
Download or read book Gabriel Garc a M rquez written by Gerald Martin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decades in the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez. Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, from his upbringing in backwater Colombia and early journalism career, to the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude at age forty, and the wealth and fame that followed. Based on interviews with more than three hundred of Garcia Marquez’s closest friends, family members, fellow authors, and detractors—as well as the many hours Martin spent with ‘Gabo’ himself—the result is a revelation of both the writer and the man. It is as gripping as any of Gabriel García Márquez’s powerful journalism, as enthralling as any of his acclaimed and beloved fiction.
Download or read book The Framework of Hemisphere Defense written by Stetson Conn and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of plans to protect the United States and the rest of the Western Hemisphere that concentrates on policy in the three years before Pearl Harbor, the gradual merger of hemisphere defense into a broader national defense policy, the transition to offensive plans after Pearl Harbor, and the military relationships of the United States with other American nations.
