The Road to San Giovanni
by Calvino, Italo
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679415238
- ISBN 13
- 9780679415237
- Seller
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Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4988501-6
- Title
- The Road to San Giovanni
- Author
- Calvino, Italo
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679415238
- ISBN 13
- 9780679415237
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1993
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