Adam, One Afternoon

Author: Italo Calvino

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  • : $12.95 AUD
  • : 9780099287032
  • : United Book Distributors
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  • : 0.137
  • : 01 August 1992
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 12mm
  • : United Kingdom
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Description

This collection of playful, deadly fables 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'.

Author description

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923. He grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985.