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Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Randolph Hogan. In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, w...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780517699386
ISBN-10: 0517699389
Publication Date: 9/2/1989
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Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Much easier (and shorter!) than some of Marquez's other works, but fairly interesting...liked it better than Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea. But was waiting for something crazy or scary or exciting to happen, but most of the story is just of the sailor floating along hungry in the ocean....on the boring side.
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Thirty years after the event, Marquez recounts his of a sailor, presumably lost at sea for ten days: of his survival and ultimate rescue. There it ends but for the introduction that tells of the aftermath brought on by a successions of dictatorial regimes. Dont miss this one! It is an equivalent to The Old Man and the Sea.
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This is the sailor's own story. Journalist Marquez took pains to present it in the sailor's own style. Some doubt the truthfulness of it, but it is engrossing none-the-less.
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Amazing tale. Must read for sailors and adventurers.