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_aCalvino, Italo _910935 |
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245 | _aThe Complete Cosmicomics | ||
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_aBoston _bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt _c2014 |
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300 | _axxiv, 401p., | ||
520 | _aItalo Calvino, trans. from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, and William Weaver. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24 (432p) ISBN 978-0-544-14644-0 Reviewed by Seth Satterlee. Nearly 50 years after the publication of the original Cosmicomics, Calvino's 34 connected tales%E2%80%94spanning three separate collections%E2%80%94are finally together for the first time in English. The majority of the stories begin with a scientific assertion (reasonable or far-fetched) and feature the omnipresent narrator Qfwfq, cosmological guide and witness to the origins and formation of the universe. | ||
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_aCosmic Radiation _910936 |
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_aExtraterrestrials _910937 |
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_aSingers _910938 |
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