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Profane Friendship

Brodkey, Harold

 
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Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Harold Brodkey's major novel, The Runaway Soul, was published in 1991. Profane Friendship was comissioned by the Consorzio Venezia Nuova, the group charged with the task of saving the city of Venice, and was written in Venice in the Spring of 1992. Harold Brodkey lives in New York City.

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