BOOK

Difficult loves

Calvino, Italo, author, Weaver, William, 1923-2013, translator, Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator, Colquhoun, Archibald, translator

2017

Overview

\"Intricate interior lives are brilliantly explored in these short stories, now presented in one definitive collection as Calvino intended them. In Difficult Loves, Italy's master storyteller weaves tales in which cherished deceptions and illusions of love--including self-love--are swept away in magical instants of recognition. A soldier is reduced to quivering fear by the presence of a full-figured woman in his train compartment; a young clerk leaves a lady's bed at dawn; a young woman is isolated from bathers on a beach by the loss of her bikini bottom. Each of them discovers hidden truths beneath the surface of everyday life. This is the first edition in English to present the collection as Calvino originally envisioned it, and includes two stories newly translated by Ann Goldstein\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Subject: Calvino, Italo. / Short stories, Italian. / Interpersonal relations Fiction. / Man-woman relationships Fiction. / FICTION - Literary. / FICTION - Classics. / FICTION - Short Stories (single author).
• ISBN: 9780544959125

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PQ4809.A45 A2 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE