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Calvino, Italo, author.

Difficult loves / Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver, Ann Goldstein, and Archibald Colquhoun.

First Mariner Books edition.

Boston ; New York : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

ix, 307 pages ; 21 cm

"Intricate interior lives are brilliantly explored in these short stories, now presented in one definitive collection as Calvino intended them. In Difficult Loves, Italy's master storyteller weaves tales in which cherished deceptions and illusions of love--including self-love--are swept away in magical instants of recognition. A soldier is reduced to quivering fear by the presence of a full-figured woman in his train compartment; a young clerk leaves a lady's bed at dawn; a young woman is isolated from bathers on a beach by the loss of her bikini bottom. Each of them discovers hidden truths beneath the surface of everyday life. This is the first edition in English to present the collection as Calvino originally envisioned it, and includes two stories newly translated by Ann Goldstein"-- Provided by publisher.

Calvino, Italo.

Short stories, Italian.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.

Short stories.

Weaver, William, 1923-2013, translator.

Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator.

Colquhoun, Archibald, translator.

Short stories. Selections. English

"The stories in this collection were written during the 1950s and collected in the anthology I racconti (Turin: Einaudi, 1958). The Adventure of a Skier and The Adventure of a Motorist were translated by Ann Goldstein for this volume. The Argentine Ant was translated by Archibald Colquhoun for the volume Adam, One Afternoon (London: William Collins & Sons), 1957). The remaining stories were translated by William Weaver: The Adventure of a Crook, The Adventure of a Wife, and The Adventure of the Married Couple for the volume Difficult Loves (London: Secker & Warburg, 1983); Smog for the volume The Watcher and Other Stories (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1971); and all others for the volume Difficult Loves (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1984)."--Editor's note.

"First published in Italy by Giulio Einaudi Editore, S.p.A. as Gli Amori Difficili"--Title page verso.

In English, translated from the Italian.

Part I: Difficult loves. The adventure of a soldier ; The adventure of a crook ; The adventure of a bather ; The adventure of a clerk ; The adventure of a photographer ; The adventure of a traveler ; The adventure of a reader ; The adventure of a nearsighted man ; The adventure of a wife ; The adventure of the married couple ; The adventure of a poet ; The adventure of a skier ; The adventure of a motorist -- Part II: Difficult lives. The Argentine ant ; Smog.

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