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Cr8vo. 127pp. In neat price-clipped d/w now protected by clear archival covering, text in excellent condition overall. The author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “powerful style-forming mastery of the art of modern narration” revealed at the time by this novella in 1954. Written in 1951 in Cuba, it was the last major work of fiction to be published in his lifetime and of course was made into a successful Spencer Tracey film in 1958.