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One Hundred Years Of Solitude by: Marquez G Garcia List Price: CDN$ 18.99 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 13.86 You Save: CDN$5.13 (27%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 863.64 EAN: 9780060883287 ISBN: 0060883286 Label: Harper Perennial US Manufacturer: Harper Perennial US Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: February 09, 2006 Publisher: Harper Perennial US Release Date: February 20, 2006 Studio: Harper Perennial US Sales Rank: 2060 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - YawnI thoroughly enjoyed Love in the Time of Cholera. I expected to feel the same about "One Hundred Years of Solitude" -- I didn't. It dragged. And dragged. And dragged. I found it very hard to get into and struggled to stay awake through most of it. Sorely disappopinted. Rating:  - Inventive and Enjoyable Landmark in Modern Literature'One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a compelling if challenging read. It overflows with creativity, history, magic, and characters with the same names. Yes, there are many Jose Arcadios, even more Aurelianos and more than one Amaranta in the same family, often at the same time. But, once one makes use of the character genealogy at the beginning it is not to hard to keep track of the respective characters. What makes 100 years such a compelling read is its incredible blending of the fantastical with realism. Marquez blends detailed accounts of absolutely impossible events with equally detailed accounts of completely plausible or historically known events with such equanimity of importance as to make them indistinguishable to the plot. ... Read More: |
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