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The Autumn of the Patriarch
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    Publication Date: Mar 14, 2006
    List Price: $13.99
    Format: Paperback, 255 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9780060882860
    Imprint: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
    Publisher: HarperCollins
    Parent Company: News Corp

    Paperback Description:

    One of Gabriel Garc a M rquez’s most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant andthe corruption of power.From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel Garc a M rquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictator-ship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and real.



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