Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories
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Book Overview
"Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody . . . Distance has been the warp that supports the weft of every love story." -- from Numbers in the Dark... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0679743537
ISBN13:9780679743538
Release Date:October 1996
Publisher:Vintage
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:8.0" x 0.6" x 5.2"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
Great book, mediocre kindle iPad edition
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
This is a wonderful collection of little gems. Unfortunately the Kindle to iPad edition is filled with "typos"--- I suppose representing failure of the OCR used to create the file?
Stories, Dialogues and Fables from a Master Story Teller
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Contents Include: Preface by Esther Calvino FABLES AND STORIES: 1943 - 1958 * The Man Who Shouted Teresa * The Flash * Making Do * Dry River * Conscience * Solidarity * The Black Sheep * Good for Nothing * Like a Flight of Ducks * Love Far from Home * Wind in a City * The Lost Regiment * Enemy Eyes * A General in the Library * The Workshop Hen * Numbers in the Dark * The Queen's Necklace * Becalmed in the Antilles * The Tribe with Its Eyes on the Sky * Nocturnal Soliloquy of a Scottish Nobleman * A Beautiful March Day TALES AND DIALOGUES 1968-1984 * World Memory * Beheading the Heads * The Burning of the Abominable House * The Petrol Pump * Neanderthal Man * Montezuma * Before You Say 'Hello' * Glaciation * The Call of the Water * The Mirror, the Target * The Other Eurydice * The Memoirs of Casanova * Henry Ford * The Last Channel * Implosion * Nothing and Not Much
Far out.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
If you see polka dots as round stripes (as I do) then this collection will appeal to you. This guy has a really off beat take on the world.
product of a brilliant mind
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
this engaging collection of stories shows calvino's versatility.playfully absurd fables, mind-bending exercises in combinatorics, "interviews" with somewhat deranged historical figures, glaciation interrupting a romantic encounter, an encylopedia of all human knowledge... these ideas and more are all expressed with humor, economy and wonderful style.
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