If on a Winter's Night a Traveller :A special edition of the classic genre-defying novel - Vintage Quarterbound Classics
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller :A special edition of the classic genre-defying novel - Vintage Quarterbound Classics
hardback | English
Published:
5 October, 2023
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A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino's genre-switching masterwork. A book of surprise and adventure but you, the reader, are the hero.
You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary and a quest. But the real hero is you, the reader.
'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell
'A writer of dizzying ambition and variety, each of his stories is a fresh adventure into the possibilities of fiction' Guardian
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781784878665 |
| ISBN10 | 1784878669 |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 333 g |
| Product Dimensions | 137 x 206 x 27 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | hardback |
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Author's Bio
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.