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1 online resource (111 pages). |
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text file rda |
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New York Review Books classics |
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New York Review Books classics.
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| Summary |
"A thirteen-year-old boy spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort feels displaced in his beautiful widowed mother's affections by her cocksure new companion and strays into the company of some local young toughs and their unsettling leader, a fleshy older boatman with six fingers on each hand. Initially repelled by their squalor and brutality, repeatedly humiliated for his well-bred frailty and above all for his ingenuousness in matters of women and sex, the boy nonetheless finds himself masochistically drawn back to the gang's rough games. And yet what he has learned is too much for him to assimilate; instead of the manly calm he had hoped for he is beset by guilty curiosity and an urgent desire to sever, at any cost, the thread of troubled sensuality that binds him to his mother still. Alberto Moravia's classic and yet still startling portrait of innocence lost was written in 1941 but rejected by Fascist censors and not published until 1944, when it became a best seller and secured the author the first literary prize of his career. Revived here in a sparkling new translation by Michael F. Moore, Agostino is poised to enthrall and astonish a twenty-first-century audience"-- Provided by publisher. |
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A thriteen-year-old boy, on vacation at a Tuscan seaside resort, joins a local group of young toughs and struggles to overcome his troubling attachment to his beautiful widowed mother. |
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"A thirteen-year-old boy spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort feels displaced in his beautiful widowed mother's affections by her cocksure new companion and strays into the company of some local young toughs and their unsettling leader, a fleshy older boatman with six fingers on each hand. Initially repelled by their squalor and brutality, repeatedly humiliated for his well-bred frailty and above all for his ingenuousness in matters of women and sex, the boy nonetheless finds himself masochistically drawn back to the gang's rough games. And yet what he has learned is too much for him to assimilate; instead of the manly calm he had hoped for he is beset by guilty curiosity and an urgent desire to sever, at any cost, the thread of troubled sensuality that binds him to his mother still. Alberto Moravia's classic and yet still startling portrait of innocence lost was written in 1941 but rejected by Fascist censors and not published until 1944, when it became a best seller and secured the author the first literary prize of his career. Revived here in a sparkling new translation by Michael F. Moore, Agostino is poised to enthrall and astonish a twenty-first-century audience"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 111). |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
World War (1939-1945) |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
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Italian fiction -- 20th century.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
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Italian fiction. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Italy -- Fiction.
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Italy -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Italy. |
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Bildungsromans.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Moore, Michael, 1954 August 24- translator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Moravia, Alberto, 1907-1990. Agostino New York : New York Review Books, [2014] 9781590177235 (DLC) 2013050863 (OCoLC)861206826 |
| ISBN |
9781590177372 : $15.95 |
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1590177371 : $15.95 |
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