The Road to San Giovanni
by Italo Calvino
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679415238
- ISBN 13
- 9780679415237
- Seller
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Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
first American edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket; no prior owner marks; tight bind; clean 1/4 cloth cover, bright gilt titling; dj has little compression at spine ends and corner tips, but no tears; flap price present dsk
Synopsis
Assembled and published posthumously, The Road to San Giovanni offers Calvino’s reflections on his own life and work. These five elegant “memory exercises” provide a varied and revealing portrait of a writer who was deeply wary of autobiography: from the title essay’s moving evocation of the author’s relationship with his father — couched in a lyrical sketch of Calvino’s childhood home — to a charming account of teenage years spent in the glow of the cinema screen, to Calvino’s declaration of purpose as a writer in the final essay’s visionary fragments. Heartfelt, affecting, and wise, The Road to San Giovanni will appeal to Calvino’s existing fans and win new ones.
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- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12914
- Title
- The Road to San Giovanni
- Author
- Italo Calvino
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679415238
- ISBN 13
- 9780679415237
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
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