Last Comes the Raven
Calvino, Italo / Colquhoun, Archibald / Wright, Peggy / Goldstein, Ann / Johnson, Ben / Weaver, William
The first complete English-language edition of Calvino's early short story collection.These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian countryside and seaside, telling tales both sumptuous and unnerving. Calvino's war-torn Italy is vivid, intense, almost hyper-real. A trio of greedy burglars rob a pastry shop, a boy offers a girl presents of toads and insects from the garden, a wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, on...