# Adam, One Afternoon

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- Authors: [Italo Calvino](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9928-703-2
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2010-09-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This collection of playful, deadly febles is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story The Argentine Ant moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.