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Description'Gleaming with resonant clarity, Calvino's fiction hits the mind's eye with the hard-edged sumptuousness, of a pre-Raphaelite painting. Vividnes, enthralls him. Story after story in DIFFICULT LOVES sparkle, with heightened reSponsiveness to life. Capturing the tiniest tactile sensations and the heart-pounding excitement that amplifies them, Calvino sensitises his characters down to the last straining tendon and straying finger-tip' Promotion infoA spectacular display of this key European writer's early work 20020218 Author descriptionItalo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. During the war he was a member of the Italian Resistance and joined the Communist Party, although he later left in 1957. One of the most respected writers of our time, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1981 he was awarded the prestigious French Legion d'Honneur. He died in Siena in 1985. |