By David Remnick (Knopf, $29.95) Parul Sehgal, Time Out New York / Issue 757 : Apr 1–7, 2010 Readers of David Remnick’s new biography of the President will run the risk of some slight Obama fatigue. The Bridge revisits recent history, after all, and features the expected talking points and players: William Ayers, the Rev. Jeremiah [...]
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Gabriel García Márquez
Posted in Reviews, tagged biography, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Fidel Castro, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gerald Martin, magical realism on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By Gerald Martin. Knopf, $37.50. Gerald Martin’s laudatory biography of Gabriel García Márquez unfurls with cinematic splendor. Readers might feel as if they’ve picked up one of the magical realist’s novels, for here are the family, friends and folktales that the writer fictionalized: the superstitious grandmothers, the solitary patriarchs, the unwittingly alluring schoolgirls and the murder [...]
