The Road to San Giovanni (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Italo Calvino (Author), Martin McLaughlin (Primary Contributor)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $11.47

  Includes five autobiographical meditations that delves into the author's past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists.

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $6.60

  Translated from the Italian by Tim Parks, The Road to San Giovanni is a posthumously published collection of five autobiographical essays by one of the masters of Italian literature, ranging from a lyrical portrait of the author's relationship with his father to a perceptive essay on his own youthful obsession with the cinema.