Profane friendship
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1994 - Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
96,750 words, Guess
Page Count
387 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1442157M
- ISBN-100374235449
- OCLC Control Number29999128
- OCLC Control Numberprofanefriendshi00brod
- Library of Congress Control Number93074732
and 2 more
- LibraryThing499559
- Goodreads1770586
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3552.R6224 P76 1994
Description
In Profane Friendship, Harold Brodkey tells an odd and strangely beautiful Venetian love story, sounding its depths with the suppleness and virtuosity of style that in recent years have won him worldwide admiration as a uniquely gifted American writer. Growing up in Venice in the 1930s, Niles O'Hara, the son of an expatriate American novelist, loves a Venetian boy named Giangiacomo Gallieni, fondly 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. Profane Friendship is a remarkable depiction of an intense and enduring relationship conducted in the triumphantly alluring setting of the world's most beautiful city. Searching, comic, romantic, and ironic. Harold Brodkey's novel is at once the most sumptuous modern evocation of Venice and a truly singular exploration of human emotion and passion.
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