"So it's appropriate that this master synthesizer of high and popular culture, who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude listening only to Debussy's preludes and the Beatles" "A Hard Day's Night," ends the first volume of his projected three-part memoir with a cliffhanger... The next installments may or may not appear-- García Márquez, 75, is recovering from cancer-- and though he's surely the world's most influential living writer, we may or may not stay tuned." -Gates