Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Contemplates the misfortunes of old age, and celebrates the joys of being in love. This work tells of an unnamed second-rate reporter who on the eve of his ninetieth birthday decides to give himself ‘a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent’.~Worldcat.org….Read More
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