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      Into the War

      by Italo Calvino
      Published
      Sep 2014
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      These three stories, set during the summer of 1940, draw on Italo Calvino's memories of his own adolescence during the Second World War, too young to be forced to fight in Mussolini's army but old enough to be conscripted into the Italian youth brigades. The callow narrator of these tales observes the mounting unease of a city girding itself for war, the looting of an occupied French town, and nighttime revels during a blackout. Appearing here in its first English translation, "Into the War" is one of Calvino's only works of autobiographical fiction. It offers both a glimpse of this writer's extraordinary life and a distilled dram of his wry, ingenious literary voice.

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      First Edition Sep 2014 Mariner ISBN13 9780544146389 ISBN10 0544146387
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      Nov 2011 Penguin ISBN13 9780141193731 ISBN10 0141193735
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