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The Cloven Viscount

The Cloven Viscount - Paperback

by Italo Calvino
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Availability:In StockContributor:Italo CalvinoPublish date:2017-08-15Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner Books ClassicsISBN-13:9780544960060ISBN-10:544960068UPC:9780544960060Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Magical Realism, AbsurdistSize:7.80 x 5.20 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SC440D0DY5
In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures

In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bisected lengthwise by a cannonball. One half of him returns to his feudal estate and takes up a lavishly evil life. Soon the other, virtuous half appears. When the two halves become rivals for the love of the same woman, there's no telling the lengths each will go to win.Now available in an independent volume for the first time, this deliciously bizarre novella is Calvino at his most devious and winning.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner Books ClassicsISBN-13:9780544960060ISBN-10:544960068UPC:9780544960060Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Magical Realism, AbsurdistSize:7.80 x 5.20 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SC440D0DY5
ITALO CALVINO's superb storytelling gifts earned him international renown and a reputation as "one of the world's best fabulists" (New York Times Book Review). At the time of his death, in 1985, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer.
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics

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