BLOW-UP AND OTHER STORIES - Pantheon

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 murderer's victim...In the stories collected here - including 'Blow-Up', on which Antonioni based his film - Julio Cortazar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible. This is the most brilliant and celebrated book of short stories by a master of the form.The book include:- Axolotl- House Taken Over- The Distances- The Idol of the Cyclades- Letter to a Young Lady in Paris- A Yellow Flower- Continuity of Parks- The Night Face Up- Bestiary- The Gates of Heaven- Blow-Up- End of the Game- At Your Service- The Pursuer- Secret Weapons