Description
Product ID: | 9780241339107 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Penguin Modern |
Title: | The Distance of the Moon |
Authors: | Author: Italo Calvino |
Page Count: | 64 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Science fiction, Fantasy, Short stories, Science fiction, Fantasy, Short stories |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space. ''Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.'' |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-02-22 |