Frances Wilson

The gifts of Gabo

Once he started consorting with presidents and dictators, the Nobel Prize-winner became laughably self-important, according to many of his friends

  • Solitude & Company: A Life of Gabriel García Márquez told with Help from his Friends, Family, Fans, Arguers, Fellow Pranksters, Drunks and a few Respectable Souls

    Silvana Paternostro, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman

    Seven Stories, pp. 336

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