Difficult loves ; Smog ; A plunge into real estate: Marcovaldo, or, The seasons in the city
by:
Italo Calvino (author)
ISBN:
9780886192211 (0886192218)
Publish date: June 13th 2002
Publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys
Pages no: 373
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Love,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Magical Realism,
Short Stories,
Italian Literature
I am so happy to know Calvino and can't believe I'm just now getting around to him, but better late than never.I got the edition with four sections: Riviera Stories, Wartime Stories, Postwar Stories, and Stories of Love and Loneliness. Twenty-eight stories total, most written 1945-1949, some in the ...
I'm only in the middle of the book, but even if the rest of the stories are complete duds, it still deserves five stars!++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++The rest of the stories confirmed my opinion of this collection. The only other Calvino I've been able to finish was _If on a W...
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