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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Randolf Hogan (Translator)
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, which originally appeared as a ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780394754031
ISBN-10: 0394754034
Publication Date: 4/12/1987
Pages: 106
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3.7 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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animlgrl avatar reviewed The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor on + 84 more book reviews
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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.


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