Adam, One Afternoon (Picador Books)

by ItaloCalvino (Author), A . Colquhoun (Translator), PaulM.Wright (Translator)

• Used

  Paperback
  1984

  $3.50

• New

  Paperback
  1992

  $11.80

  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'.