Blow-Up And Other Stories |
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Author:
| Cortázar, Julio. |
ISBN: | 978-0-394-72881-0 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1992 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's intended victim . . . Originally published in hardcover as
End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here-including "Blow-Up," which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni's film of the same name-shows Julio Cortazar's nimble capacity to explorethe shadowy realm where the everyday meets the...
More DescriptionA young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's intended victim . . .
Originally published in hardcover asEnd of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here-including "Blow-Up," which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni's film of the same name-shows Julio Cortazar's nimble capacity to explorethe shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.