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  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

  • Written by: Italo Calvino
  • Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
  • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Written by: Italo Calvino
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
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Publisher's Summary

Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but 10, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.

©1979 Giulio Einaudi Editore, S.p.A., Torino; 1981 Harcourt, Inc. (translation) (P)2017 Recorded Books

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What a fantastic journey...

Loved every minute...A guide to enjoying a novel with a deep perspective of a writer.

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Vivid but poorly executed

The concpet promises varied voices in each chapter, but it is difficult to get past the constant objectification of women. Convoluted and unconvincing. Jefferson Mays performance is lovely, however.

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