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Difficult Loves: Smog - A Plunge into Real Estate (Vintage Classics)

Difficult Loves: Smog - A Plunge into Real Estate (Vintage Classics)

by ItaloCalvino (Author), WilliamWeaver (Translator)

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    Paperback 1993

    $7.38

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    Paperback 1985

    $4.20
Synopsis

This dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts. As well as the eleven tales from his "Difficult Loves" collection this volume also includes "Smog" and "A Plunge into Real Estate".

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 27 Sep 1993
ISBN 10: 0099430886
ISBN 13: 9780099430889
Book Overview: A spectacular display of this key European writer's early work

Media Reviews
A beautifully translated collection of early stories by the highly regarded Italian writer. The earliest were written in 1945 when Calvino was twenty-two and the latest date from the 1950s when he was in his early thirties. The quirkiness and the grace of the writing, the originality of the imagination at work, the incandescence of vision, make this collection well worth reading, and for more than archaeological reasons * New York Times Book Review *
The quirkiness and grace of the writing, the originality of the imagination at work, the occasional incandescence of vision, and a certain loveable nuttiness make this collection well worth reading -- Margaret Atwood
The greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century * Guardian *
Author Bio
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. During the war he was a member of the Italian Resistance and joined the Communist Party, although he later left in 1957. One of the most respected writers of our time, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1981 he was awarded the prestigious French Legion d'Honneur. He died in Siena in 1985.