Hermit in Paris - Autobiographical Writings
by Calvino, Italo
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0224061321
- ISBN 13
- 9780224061322
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Synopsis
Italo Calvino (1923—1985) was born in Cuba and grew up in San Remo, Italy. He was a member of the partisan movement during the German occupation of northern Italy in World War II. The novel that resulted from that experience, published in English as The Path to the Nest of Spiders, won widespread acclaim. His other works of fiction include The Baron in the Trees , The Castle of Crossed Destinies , Cosmicomics , Difficult Loves , If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler , Invisible Cities , Marcovaldo , Mr. Palomar , The Nonexistent Knight & the Cloven Viscount , t zero , Under the Jaguar Sun , The Watcher and Other Stories , and Numbers in the Dark . His works of nonfiction include include The Road to San Giovanni and Six Memos for the Next Millennium .
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- Bookseller
- Goldring Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008691
- Title
- Hermit in Paris - Autobiographical Writings
- Author
- Calvino, Italo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224061321
- ISBN 13
- 9780224061322
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FASCISM IN SAN REMO, RESISTANCE, ITALIAN COMMUNISM, MARTIN LUTHER KING, PARIS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography - General;
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