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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Binding is soft cover. Condition: Good copy. First paperback edition. Cover image: Anastasia Voutyropoulou. Growing up in Venice of the 1930's Niles O'Hara befriends a Venetian boy, Giangiacomo Gallieni. After the war Niles returns, only to become involved with his childhood friend, who is now an adolescent with a wartime history of sexual trespass. 387 pag. Size: 19,5cmx13cm. Seller Inventory # 022819
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