Pros: Nice language, new style, short read. Cons: Boring story, disappointing characters, confusing style.
I found this book at the library and the title "Memories of my Melancholy Hores" (That's spelled incorrectly so this review can be submitted.) caught my eye because I wondered how a prostitute might be romanticized into a novel with such lovely cover ...
Pros: Mellifluous and precise writing. Cons: Plot is essentially an aging john who pines for a fourteen-year old girl.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first work of fiction in a decade opens with, “The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of wild love with an adolescent virgin.” "Memories of My Melancholy Wh*res" brings the reader in immediately, ...
Memories of My Melancholy Whores is Gabriel Garc??a M??rquez's first work of fiction in ten years, written at the height of his powers, the Spanish ed...More at HotBookSale
A cause for celebration, this is the Nobel laureate s first work of fiction in ten years--a masterpiece by a master storyteller.More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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