Blow-Up and Other Stories

Books

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 victim . . . In the fifteen stories collected here-including "Blow-Up," which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni's film of the same name-Julio Cortazar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible. Contains: Axolotl House taken over Distances Idol of the Cyclades Letter to a young lady in Paris Yellow flower Continuity of parks Night face up Bestiary Gates of heaven Blow-up End of the game At your service Pursuer Secret weapons.