Solitude Company: The Life of Gabriel Garca Mrquez Told with Help from H [Paperback]

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. Charming and rowdy ... it's a book that gathers his old friends together, as if around a table, and lets them talk.  —Dwight Garner, The New York Times

Solitude & Company is outstanding as a work of journalism and a pleasure to read. This is as close as you’ll ever get to spending a day with the master himself. —Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling

Solitude & Company captures Gabo—the man, the times and the places that created him. How a man from the Caribbean made a universe that the world embraced. Everyone who loves Gabriel García Márquez's work will enjoy this wonderful book.  —Benicio Del Toro

A disquieting portrait of the man who propelled Latin American writing into the global markets. Nobody is more judgmental or crueler than the friends we made before we came to be whatever we are, but at the same time nobody can be more generous and accurate. The perhaps savage honesty of the persons who knew good old Gabo before he reached the stratosphere with the publication of his landmark novel One Hundred Years of Solitude—many of them characters in the book—offers tools to understand the person of the author better than the hagiographic writing of academic biographers. —Alvaro Enrigue, BookPost