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Adam, One Afternoon

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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’. – Adam, One Afternoon – The Enchanted Garden – Father to Son – A Goatherd at Luncheon – Leaving Again Shortly – The House of the Beehives – Fear on the Footpath – Hunger at Bévera – Going to Headquarters – The Crow Comes Last – One of the Three is Still Alive – Animal Wood – Seen in the Canteen – Theft in a Cake Shop – Dollars and the Demi-Mondaine – Sleeping Like Dogs – Desire in November – A Judgment – The Cat and the Policeman – Who Put the Mine in the Sea? – The Argentine Ant

About Author

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics col

Author

Italo Calvino

ISBN

9780099287032

Pages

164

Publication Date

01-01-1957

Publisher

Vintage

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