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The Watcher and Other Stories » (1st Edition)
Authors: Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator), Archibald Colquhoun
ISBN-13: 9780156949521, ISBN-10: 0156949520
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: October 1975
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Italo Calvino
Book Synopsis
The three long stories in this volume show the range and virtuosity of Italy’s most imaginative writer. “Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us” (John Updike, New Yorker).Translated by William Weaver and Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
John Updike
Like Borgas and Garcia Marquez, Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us....Of the three, Calvino is the funniest, the most variously and benignly curious about the human truth as it comes embedded in its animal, vegetable, historical, and cosmic contest. -- The New Yorker
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