For the first time in paperback, here is a diabolically inventive collection of previously uncollected stories, fables, and "impossible interviews" from the internationally acclaimed author of Invisible Cities and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.
Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories
โ Scribed by Calvino, Italo
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Year
- 1996;1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Edition
- 1st American ed
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Several dozen stories by the late Italian writer. In Nothing and Not Much, a creature which witnessed the birth of the world describes the event, Henry Ford is an analysis of a captain of capitalism, and in Beheading the Heads, politicians are regularly executed to keep them on their toes.
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