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Growing up in Venice in the 1930s, Niles, the son of an expatriate American novelist, loves a Venetian boy known as Onni. After the Second World War, Niles and his mother return to Venice, and he becomes involved in a complex on-again, off-again affair with his childhood friend, now an adolescent with a wartime history of sexual trespass.
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A staff writer for The New Yorker since the early 1950s, Harold Brodkey died in 1996. He was the author of books including The Runaway Soul, This Wild Darkness, My Venice and The World is the Home of Love and Death.
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An exploration of love that slides tissues of earthly friendship and love under the Brodkey microscope and finds the cell walls of the human soul. In 1993, Brodkey announced in The New Yorker that he has AIDS. As in The Runaway Soul (1991), Brodkey deals in shadings, quarter tones, nuances, and half-gestures that plant a raw reality on the page, a Nowness, that stops time and fixes each slice of feeling into a still-life in painterly words. Patches arise that are often as hard to grasp as Henry James's late style, the reader's brain a sieve through which pass drenches of sensation, coloring thoughts without actually forming them. Setting his story in Venice, Brodkey conjures up the city in ravishing descriptions, ever coming up with immensely striking sentences amid his more remote effects: ``One desires a naked world of love to replace the one of lonely dailiness, a world which has a heat of emotion and genital heat, and such warm, shocked brightness spreading through it that it might as well be Hell.'' We follow the birth of love in Niles O'Hara, son of a best-selling novelist who lives in prewar Venice and is a friend of Hemingway's; birth of family love and adoration of his nursemaid Zilda, and then of his love for fellow student Onni Galliani, which revives after the war when the O'Haras (minus Dad) return to Venice; birth of love as male sex play and profane friendship with Onni; love becoming love/hate as Onni turns into a monster, and later into a dead soul as a world-famous actor who envies Niles his life as a writer. At story's end, after a glorious picture of bustling street life in Venice, Niles says, ``I regret the disappearance of my life.'' Spirited originality that will take time to sink in. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0224037757
- ISBN 13 9780224037754
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