The Autumn of the Patriarch (Perennial Classics)
Edition: 1st Harper/Perinnial ed edition
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Published: October 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780060932671
Subjects: Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Prose & Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Classics; Fiction / Classics
First sentence: Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.