num_pages: 190
description: This collection of playful, deadly fables 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'.
language: English
title: Adam, one afternoon and other stories
titlecomplete: Adam, one afternoon and other stories
genres: Fiction, Cultural, Italy, Short Stories, Literature, Classics, Contemporary, 20th Century, Italian Literature, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1142
publisher: Secker & Warburg