Numbers in the Dark Paperback / softback
by Italo Calvino
Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death.
They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside their mud huts; a computer programmer considering the possible sequence of a series of brutal acts; and dialogues with Henry Ford, a Neanderthal and the gloomy, overthrown Montezuma ...
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, integrated black and white
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/05/2009
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- ISBN:9780141189741
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, integrated black and white
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/05/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141189741