Title:
Difficult loves
JLCTITLE245:
Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver and Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Amori difficili. English
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1984]
Physical Description:
viii, 290 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780151256105
9780156260558
General Note:
Translation of: Gli amori difficili.
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Abstract:
In a collection of stories written during the 1940s and 1950s, the author captures moments of revelation in the lives of ordinary people, instants blending recognition and alarm as deceptions and illusions are laid bare.
Genre:
Contents:
Adam, one afternoon -- The enchanted garden -- A goatherd at luncheon -- The house of the beehives -- Big fish, little fish -- A ship loaded with crabs -- Man in the wasteland -- Lazy sons -- Fear on the footpath -- Hunger at Bevera -- Going to headquarters -- The crow comes last -- One of the three is still alive -- Animal woods -- Mine field -- Theft in a pastry shop -- Dollars and the demimondaine -- Sleeping like dogs -- Desire in November -- Transit bed -- The adventure of a soldier -- The adventure of a bather -- The adventure of a clerk -- The adventure of a photographer -- The adventure of a traveler -- The adventure of a reader -- The adventure of a nearsighted man -- The adventure of a pet.
Language:
Translation of : Gli amori difficili.