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While Nests is a very good debut novel,it does not hold up next to Calvino's later work.The characters are thin. Chapter nine is anespecially egregious error: Here Calvinointroduces a new character, has him pedanticallyexplain the morality of the situation and thendrops him. But the book survives. It remains amoving portrait of the confusion and surreality ofwartime and of a little boy lost. If, ultimately,it is more interesting as an artifact of Calvino'syouth, that does not detract from its merit as anovel...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: It's a 'Spider' Boy's Life | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

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