Difficult loves / Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver and Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calvino, Italo.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Amori difficili. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Genre:

Fiction.

Love stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 290 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1984]

Language Note:

Translation of : Gli amori difficili.

Summary:

In a collection of stories written during the 1940s and 1950s, the author captures moments of revelation in the lives of ordinary people, instants blending recognition and alarm as deceptions and illusions are laid bare.

Contents:

Adam, one afternoon

The enchanted garden

A goatherd at luncheon

The house of the beehives

Big fish, little fish

A ship loaded with crabs

Man in the wasteland

Lazy sons

Fear on the footpath

Hunger at Bevera

Going to headquarters

The crow comes last

One of the three is still alive

Animal woods

Mine field

Theft in a pastry shop

Dollars and the demimondaine

Sleeping like dogs

Desire in November

Transit bed

The adventure of a soldier

The adventure of a bather

The adventure of a clerk

The adventure of a photographer

The adventure of a traveler

The adventure of a reader

The adventure of a nearsighted man

The adventure of a pet.

Notes:

Translation of: Gli amori difficili.

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."

Other Format:

Online version: Calvino, Italo. Amori difficili. English. Difficult loves.

ISBN:

0151256101

9780151256105

0156260557

9780156260558

OCLC:

10429703