Profane Frienship [Paperback]

Harold Brodkey (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: July 20, 1995

Growing up in Venice in the 1930's, Niles O'Hara, the son of an expatriate writer, befriends a Venetian boy, Giangiacomo Gallieni. After the war, Niles and his family return, and he becomes involved in a kind of semi-affair with his childhood friend, who is now an adolescent with a wartime history of sexual trespass. Searching, comic, romantic, and ironic, Profane Friendship is a remarkable study of a strange, provocative, powerful relationship conducted in the matchlessly human-scaled, triumphantly beautiful setting of the world's most alluring city.

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Product Details

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Trafalgar Square (July 20, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0099476312
ISBN-13: 978-0099476313
Product Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,342,536 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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