Numbers in the Dark & Other Stories
by Italo Calvino
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0224037323
- ISBN 13
- 9780224037327
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Synopsis
For the first time in paperback--a volume of thirty-seven diabolically inventive stories, fables, and "impossible interviews" from one of the great fantasists of the 20th century, displaying the full breadth of his vision and wit. Written between 1943 and 1984 and masterfully translated by Tim Parks, the fictions in Numbers in the Dark display all of Calvino's dazzling gifts: whimsy and horror, exuberance of style, and a cheerful grasp of the absurdities of the human condition.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26898
- Title
- Numbers in the Dark & Other Stories
- Author
- Italo Calvino
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224037323
- ISBN 13
- 9780224037327
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Fiction; ISBN: 0224037323 EAN: 9780224037327 Italo Calvino Numbers in the Dark & Other Stories
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Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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