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  Marcovaldo: or the Seasons in the City (Helen and Kurt Wolff Books) (Paperback) By (author) Italo Calvino

  

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  Short Description for Marcovaldo: or the Seasons in the CityAn unskilled worker in a drab northern Italian industrial city of the 1950s and 1960s, Marcovaldo has a practiced eye for spotting natural beauty and an unquenchable longing to come a little closer to the unspoiled world of his imagining. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams, gives rein to his fantasies, tries - with ingenuousness than...
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  • Publisher: Harcourt Brace International
  • Published: 30 November 1983
  • Format: Paperback 121 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9780156572040 ISBN 10: 0156572044
  • Sales rank: 363,599

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Full description for Marcovaldo: or the Seasons in the City

• An unskilled worker in a drab northern Italian industrial city of the 1950s and 1960s, Marcovaldo has a practiced eye for spotting natural beauty and an unquenchable longing to come a little closer to the unspoiled world of his imagining. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams, gives rein to his fantasies, tries - with ingenuousness than skill - to lessen his burden and that of those around him. The results are never the anticipated ones.