Hear Italo Calvino’s “The Night Driver,” Read by Jeanette Winterson



Recorded by The Guardian, Jeanette Winterson reads Italo Calvino’s 1967 story “The Night Driver,” a story of two lovers falling out in the distant era ‘b4 mobile phones.’

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