Research Catalog
Agostino
- Title
- Agostino / Alberto Moravia ; translated by Michael F. Moore.
- Author
- Moravia, Alberto, 1907-1990.
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFD 14-4589 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Moore, Michael, 1954 August 24-
- Description
- 111 pages; 20 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books Classics
- Uniform Title
- New York Review Books classics.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-4589
- ISBN
- 9781590177235 (paperback)
- 1590177231 (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2013050863
- OCLC
- 861206826
- Author
- Moravia, Alberto, 1907-1990.
- Title
- Agostino / Alberto Moravia ; translated by Michael F. Moore.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books ClassicsNew York Review Books classics.
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- Added Author
- Moore, Michael, 1954 August 24-
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-4589
