Screen LibraryMarcovaldo, or, The seasons in the city /
An 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, a...
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
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| Publisher Address: | San Diego, CA : |
| Publication Dates: | [1983]. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Italian |
| Edition: | First American edition. |
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A Helen and Kurt Wolff book
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| Summary: |
An 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. |
| Item Description: | "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book." |
| Carrier Form: | 121 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780156572040 0156572044 |
| Index Number: | PQ4809 |
| CLC: | I546.45 |
| Call Number: | I546.45/C168-19 |
| Contents: |
Mushrooms in the city -- Park-bench vacation -- Municipal pigeon -- City lost in the snow -- Wasp treatment -- Saturday of sun, sand, and sleep -- Lunch-box -- Forest on the superhighway -- Good air -- Journey with the cows -- Poisonous rabbit -- Wrong stop -- Where the river is more blue? -- Soon and GNAC -- Rain and the leaves -- Marcovaldo at the supermarket -- Smoke, wind, and soap-bubbles -- City all to himself -- Garden of stubborn cats -- Santa's children. |