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LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Knopf; $18.95). A spurned suitor endures 50 years of solitude to win the woman he loves, in the Nobel laureate's sprawling, exuberant fable...
History may have abandoned this backwater metropolis, once heralded as "the gateway to America," but life goes on in stunning profusion. Garcia Marquez generously populates a place "where everything was known, and where many things were known even before they happened, above all if they concerned the rich." But the constant gossip actually pays little heed to class distinctions. Whatever their status, the author's characters energetically play their parts in the human comedy. They are born to die. Hearts are enchanted, broken and sometimes put back together again. Wisdom accrues to those who have grown too old to profit...
Milagro marks a brave attempt at a humanist western. It is a genre in which faith and good works reinforce each other, Anglo pragmatism rubs shoulders with Latino magic, and John Wayne might peacefully coexist with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The spirits may stir up a gust of wind, a kind of Milagro airlift, to bring the good word to town. And a cowboy (James Gammon) with a forbidding face -- you figure him to be the Jack Palance villain from Shane -- may up and save your life. Nobody will get hurt, except in the pride. Finally, the village will erupt into...
...Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes a love story that throbs with the human comedy. -- David Brinkley' s wartime Washington...
STAFF WRITERS: Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Scott MacLeod, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Amy Wilentz, Laurence Zuckerman...