| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
276 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Contents |
The man who shouted Teresa -- The flash -- Making do -- Dry river -- Conscience -- Solidarity -- The black sheep -- Good for nothing -- Like a flight of ducks -- Love far from home -- Wind in a city -- The lost regiment -- Enemy eyes -- A general in the library -- The workshop hen -- Numbers in the dark -- The queen's necklace -- Becalmed in the Antilles -- The tribe with its eyes on the sky -- Nocturnal soliloquy of a Scottish nobleman -- A beautiful March day -- World memory -- Beheading the heads -- The burning of the abominable house -- The petrol pump -- Neanderthal man -- Montezuma -- Before you say 'Hello' -- Glaciation -- The call of the water -- The mirror, the target -- The other Eurydice -- The memoirs of Casanova -- Henry Ford -- The last channel -- Implosion -- Nothing and not much. |
| Summary |
Several dozen stories by the late Italian writer. In Nothing and Not Much, a creature which witnessed the birth of the world describes the event, Henry Ford is an analysis of a captain of capitalism, and in Beheading the Heads, politicians are regularly executed to keep them on their toes. |
| Subject |
Short stories, Italian -- Translations into English.
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Short stories, English -- Translations from Italian.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Parks, Tim.
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| Added Title |
Prima che tu dica "Pronto". English
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| ISBN |
0679442057 |
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9780679442059 |
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