TY - BOOK AU - García Márquez,Gabriel AU - Rabassa,Gregory TI - The autumn of the patriarch SN - 978-0140157536 AV - PQ8180.17.A73 O813 1999 U1 - 863 M357a 1996 21 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - Penguin books KW - Spanish fiction KW - Translations into English N1 - DELL N2 - One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, the novel is overflowing with symbolic descriptions as it vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator embodies at once the best and the worst of human nature UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc043/99034253.html ER -