{"product_id":"marcovaldo-or-the-seasons-in-the-city","title":"Marcovaldo: or the Seasons in the City","description":"A charming portrait of one man’s dreams and schemes, by “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (Guardian).\n\nIn 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.\n\nMarcovaldo 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.\n\nSpanning from the 1950s to the 1960s, the twenty stories in Marcovaldo are alternately comic and melancholy, farce and fantasy. Throughout, Calvino’s unassuming masterpiece “conveys the sensuous, tangible qualities of life” (New York Times).\n\nTranslated from the Italian by William Weaver.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0156572044\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0156572044.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Calvino, Italo\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42739598131261,"sku":"BVV.0156572044.A","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0156572044-0.jpg?v=1763673913","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/marcovaldo-or-the-seasons-in-the-city","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}