The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

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	• The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor Gabriel Garcia Marquez Vintage, 1989 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Dull.

Straightforward story about a Columbian sailor who was washed overboard and lived in a small boat for 10 days until he washed ashore and that's about it, nothing remarkable just a guy floatin' around in a boat.

The writing is pretty pedestrian, like a fleshed out magazine article. I enjoyed "Men Against the Sea" much better.

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes real life stories. Marquez tells a true life story full of great detail. He tells evertything that happened to Luis while he was out at sea from trying to catch fish to being pecked at by seagulls. This story has great amounts of immense detail and imagery.

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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

The story of a shipwrecked sailor is an adventerous encounter by a man whose will to live and whose bravery help inspire all r eaders.
This book is difficult to put down because every paragraph is a new adventure.

Intense story telling

The book is written in the first person voice: as a Columbian sailor named Luis Alejandro Velasco recounting his 10 days at sea fighting for survival. The narration was intense to the extent that it was difficult to put down the book once started. In this sense Garcia-Marquez' mastery of story telling was evident. However apart from the direct recounting of what had happened, I felt as if there weren't much that added to literary value. No shifting of vantage points, no particular insights into human nature, and of course in this case no intriguing conversations. In the forewords Garcia-Marquez mentions that the story was published in installments on El Espectador, a newspaper company Garcia-Marquez worked for. He also indicates that the book "seems worthy of publication, but I have never quite understood the usefulness of publishing it." This is a story best enjoyed if viewed as a journalistic piece.

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Master of Description

I read this book as a teenager and loved the fact that despite the fact that there is only one character, the story never becomes boring.
Garcia Marquez describes the situation so vividly you can feel that you are on that raft with the protagonist.
Definitely worth reading...

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Translated by Randolf 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, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal.

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