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This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story "The Argentine Ant" moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.

Adam, One Afternoon

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Paperback / softback by Italo Calvino , Archibald Colquhoun

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This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 20/08/1992
    ISBN13: 9780099287032, 978-0099287032
    ISBN10: 009928703X

    Number of Pages: 192

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story "The Argentine Ant" moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.

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