Adam, One Afternoon

Name: Adam, One Afternoon
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Author: Italo Calvino
ISBN: 9781446414392

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Italo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun, Peggy Wright

Vintage Digital
Paru le : 11/01/2011

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An acclaimed collection of enchanting, comic and clever tales from the Italian masterThis collection of playful, deadly febles is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story The Argentine Ant moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.

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Date de parution : 11/01/2011
Editeur : Vintage Digital
ISBN : 978-1-4464-1439-2
EAN : 9781446414392
Format : ePub

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Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985.
A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.