Ebook: Solitude & Company: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez Told with Help from His Friends, Family, Fans, Arguers, Fellow Pranksters, Drunks, and a Few Respectable Souls

Prologue -- One hundred years of solitude: The earthquake of 1967 -- B.C. -- Before Cien Anos De Soledad: 1. The son of Luisa Santiaga and Gabriel Eligio -- 2. Raised by grandparents -- 3. The coast gets ready to speak -- 4. First and last friends -- 5. The citation of one hundred years of solitude -- 6. To be a prankster or a writer -- 7. Another whiskey -- 8. La Cueva -- 9. "The guy has the persistence of that business" -- 10. Slickers and hicks -- 11. The neck of the swan -- 12. SOFTAG: Society of Friends to Aid Gabito -- 13. Sacred crocodile -- 14. "That communist newspaper" -- 15. "Tell me more" -- 16. Solitude and Company -- 17. "There Was a Blinding Light" -- 18. Geography Lesson -- 19. BOOM! -- 20. Gabo Is Adjective, Substantive, Verb -- A.C. -- After Cien Anos De Soledad: 21. Rich and famous -- 22. The death of five kings -- 23. "Excuse me, what's your name?" -- 24. Persona Non Grata -- 25. Something new -- 26. "Shit, he died" -- 27. "I don't want to be in Stockholm by myself" -- 28. Ex Cathedra -- 29. Damaged goods -- 30. Dreams of power -- 31. Knockout -- 32. Cod-liver oil -- 33. The start -- Epilogue: The day we all woke up old -- Notes on the most important voices -- List of images.;Irreverent and hopeful, Solitude & Company recounts the life of a boy from the provinces who decided to become a writer. This is the story of how he did it, how little Gabito became Gabriel García Márquez, and of how Gabriel García Márquez survived his own self-creation.