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9780156572040
Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams-but the results are never the expected ones. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff BookCalvino, Italo is the author of 'Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City', published 1983 under ISBN 9780156572040 and ISBN 0156572044.
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