{"product_id":"marcovaldo-or-the-seasons-in-the-city-paperback","title":"Marcovaldo: Or the Seasons in the City - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eItalo Calvino\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA charming portrait of one man's dreams and schemes, by \"the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century\" (\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eIn this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, an unskilled worker in a drab northern industrial city in the 1950s and '60s, struggling to reconcile his old country habits with his current urban life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMarcovaldo has a practiced eye for spotting natural beauty and an unquenchable longing for the unspoiled rural world of his imagination. Much to the continuing puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams and gives rein to his fantasies, whether it's sleeping in the great outdoors on a park bench, following a stray cat, or trying to catch wasps. Unfortunately, the results are never quite what he anticipates.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSpanning from the 1950s to the 1960s, the twenty stories in \u003cem\u003eMarcovaldo\u003c\/em\u003e are alternately comic and melancholy, farce and fantasy. Throughout, Calvino's unassuming masterpiece \"conveys the sensuous, tangible qualities of life\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTranslated from the Italian by William Weaver.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unskilled worker in a drab northern Italian industrial city of the 1950s and 1960s, Marcovaldo has a practiced eye for spotting natural beauty and an unquenchable longing to come a little closer to the unspoiled world of his imagining. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams, gives rein to his fantasies, tries-with more ingenuousness than skill-to lessen his burden and that of those around him. The results are never the anticipated ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 121\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 16, 1983\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53808012427597,"sku":"9780156572040","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/V0Y3bVBnYzJmN1ZJK1BGamFUN2Fxdz09.webp?v=1777506637","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/marcovaldo-or-the-seasons-in-the-city-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}