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| Record 1261 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Pearlman, Mickey
| | | Title | | "Books That Left Their Mark," The Boston Globe
| | | Publisher | | Globe Newspaper Company | | | Publication place | | Boston, MA | | | Publication year | | October 2, 2005 | | | Page | | Books; D7 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | Pearlman quotes a review by Stephen McCauley on One Hundred Years of Solitude which states that "after reading this novel there was no forgetting that modern literature is bigger than the English language. Marquez took the top of my head off with the incantational beauty of his imagination, the mythic explication of South American history, the living ghosts and the dead ghosts, the dizzying repetition of names from one generation to the next." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1262 of 1411 |
| | Author | | White, Ken
| | | Title | | "Fall Fiction," Las Vegas Review
| | | Publisher | | DR Partners d/b Las Vegas Review | | | Publication place | | Las Vegas, NV | | | Publication year | | October 17, 2005 | | | Page | | E; 1E | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores White states that the book is about "a 90-year-old man [who] buys sex with a young virgin, triggering memories of past prostitutes he's enjoyed." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1263 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Mejer, Tania
| | | Title | | "Whores" Explores Dark Depths of Love," The Boston Herald
| | | Publisher | | Boston Herald | | | Publication place | | Boston, MA | | | Publication year | | October 24, 2005 | | | Page | | The Edge; O40 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores Mejer states that "to Call Gabriel García Márquez's latest effort disturbing is an understatement. In Memories of My Melancholy Whores, the Nobel Prize-winner's first work of fiction in a decade, it's not the subject matter that's disturbing, it's the love story." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1264 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Farry, Eithne
| | | Title | | "New Fiction," Daily Mail
| | | Publisher | | Associated Newspapers | | | Publication place | | London, UK | | | Publication year | | October 21, 2005 | | | Page | | 64 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores Eithne Farry states that the novel is "an elegiac fairytale that celebrates old age and the possibilities of rejuvenation." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1265 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Scurr, Ruth
| | | Title | | "Love in The Time of Cynicism," The Times
| | | Publisher | | Times Newspapers Limited | | | Publication place | | London, UK | | | Publication year | | October 22, 2005 | | | Page | | Books; 16 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In reviewing Gabriel García Máquez's novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Ruth Scurr states that the book "depicts a respected journalist, breaking the rules of a lifetime to fall madly, anarchically, transgressively in love with a 14-year-old girl on the eve of his 90th birthday." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1266 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Holgate, Andrew
| | | Title | | "Love in the Time of Old Age," Sunday Times
| | | Publisher | | Times Newspapers Limited | | | Publication place | | London, UK | | | Publication year | | October 23, 2005 | | | Page | | Culture; 53 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Andrew Holgate states that "those anxious about the 78-year-old Colombian Nobel Laureate's continued vigour as a fiction writer will not have their anxieties allayed by this new novel. In size, style and subject matter, this is a work suffused with a sense of exhaustion." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1267 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Kissel, Howard
| | | Title | | "The Old Man and the Virgin. Lust Knows No Bounds for a García Márquez Hero," Daily News
| | | Publisher | | Daily News | | | Publication place | | New York, NY | | | Publication year | | October 23, 2005 | | | Page | | Sunday Now; 21 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Howard Kissle states that "the prose, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman, has its own magic. The time setting is vague, which heightens the sense of a lush and timeless world in which the narrator is an eccentric and beguiling if emotionally uninvolving figure." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1268 of 1411 |
| | Author | |
| | | Title | | "Out This Week," The Columbus Dispatch
| | | Publisher | | The Columbus Dispatch | | | Publication place | | Columbus, OH | | | Publication year | | October 24, 2005 | | | Page | | Features - Life; 03B | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In reviewing Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, The Columbus Dispatch quotes Publishers Weekly, which described the novel as a "slim, reflective contribution to the romance of the brothel" with "striking insights into the euphoria that is the flip side of the fear of death." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1269 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Crace, John
| | | Title | | "John Crace
| | | Publisher | | Guardian Newspapers | | | Publication place | | London, UK | | | Publication year | | October 14, 2005 | | | Page | | 36 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | John Crace's review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores simply recounts the novel by presenting the most important quotes. It offers no critique or description. | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1270 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Kirsch, Adam
| | | Title | | "Memoirs of an Old Man," The New York Sun
| | | Publisher | | The New York Sun | | | Publication place | | New York, NY | | | Publication year | | October 19, 2005 | | | Page | | Front Page; 1 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In his review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Adam Kirsch discusses the controversy around the novel's subject matter. In his article he states that "Mr. García Márquez manages to deflect moral or even psychological judgment on the acts of his characters because the "magic" of his fiction annuls the "realism" that is supposed to go along with it." | | | URL | | | |
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