New York, NY: Knopf Publishing Group, 1988. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. VG++ (near fine) condition, but for previous owner's sticker on frontispiece, like new. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 348 p. Audience: General/trade.
Alfred A. Knopf, March 1988. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
"'It was inevitable...' So begins this story set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America-a story that ranges from the late nineteenth century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates. And yet, at first nothing seems inevitable, for this is a tale of unrequited love." (excerpt) Book is in very good condition. Pages are bright and clean with no interior markings. Spine is tight with no creasing. Very minimal wear, almost new.
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