The Watcher and Other Stories by Italo Calvino

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The Watcher and Other Stories

by Italo Calvino

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0156949520, Paperback)

The three long stories in this volume show the range and virtuosity of Italy’s most imaginative writer. “Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us” (John Updike, New Yorker).Translated by William Weaver and Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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