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Adam, One Afternoon

Adam, One Afternoon

by Archibald Colquhoun (Translator), Archibald Colquhoun (Translator), Italo Calvino (Author), Peggy Wright (Translator)

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    Paperback 1992

    $11.80

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    Paperback 1984

    $3.50
Synopsis

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'.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 20 Aug 1992
ISBN 10: 009928703X
ISBN 13: 9780099287032
Book Overview: An acclaimed collection of enchanting, comic and clever tales from the Italian master

Media Reviews
Italo Calvino's Adam, One Afternoon confirms the part he has played in revitalising the art of fiction in our time. In these beautifully translated stories, the quality of the writing emerges as clearly as do the ease and range of his inventiveness. Calvino's special gift is to link the physical and immediate with an allegorical timelessness-All the characters and creatures in these stories conspire to convey a feeling of the wonder, mystery and terror of life * Guardian *
Calvino's strength is his economy and subtlety. The best of his allegorical fantasies have the power of the Brothers Grimm, rollicking stories on the surface, with an underlying savagery * Listener *
Author Bio
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.