The Road to San Giovanni
by Italo Calvino
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- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0099388510
- ISBN 13
- 9780099388517
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Assembled and published posthumously, The Road to San Giovanni offers Calvino’s reflections on his own life and work. These five elegant “memory exercises” provide a varied and revealing portrait of a writer who was deeply wary of autobiography: from the title essay’s moving evocation of the author’s relationship with his father — couched in a lyrical sketch of Calvino’s childhood home — to a charming account of teenage years spent in the glow of the cinema screen, to Calvino’s declaration of purpose as a writer in the final essay’s visionary fragments. Heartfelt, affecting, and wise, The Road to San Giovanni will appeal to Calvino’s existing fans and win new ones.
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- Title
- The Road to San Giovanni
- Author
- Italo Calvino
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0099388510
- ISBN 13
- 9780099388517
- Publisher
- Random House: Vintage Classics
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
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