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ee_em_em_aye 's review for:
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
by Gabriel García Márquez
If you can get over the revolting conceit of this book, that a 90 year old has hired a 14 year old virgin, that's half the battle.
Misogynist? Oh yes? Is the central character a leach; self-centered and delusional? You bet ya.
But it's Marquez so the writing is rich, evocative and beautiful. Having the girl in the story be 14 added nothing and could have been equally as remarkable if she were 26.
Misogynist? Oh yes? Is the central character a leach; self-centered and delusional? You bet ya.
But it's Marquez so the writing is rich, evocative and beautiful. Having the girl in the story be 14 added nothing and could have been equally as remarkable if she were 26.