This collection of playful, deadly febles is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story The Argentine Ant moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.
| ISBN: | 9780099287032 |
| Publication date: | 20th August 1992 |
| Author: | Italo Calvino |
| Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 189 pages |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Classic fiction: general and literary |