Title Agostino / Alberto Moravia ; translated from the Italian by Michael F. Moore.

Publication Info.	New York : New York Review Books, 2014.
	©1945

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Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	FICTION MORAVIA	Check Shelf

Description	111 pages ; 20 cm.
Series	New York Review Books Classics
	New York Review Books classics.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (page 111).
Language	Translated from the Italian.
Subject	Mother and child -- Fiction.
	Gangs -- Fiction.
	Widows -- Fiction.
	Bildungsromans.
	FICTION -- Coming of Age.
	FICTION -- Literary.
	FICTION -- Psychological.
	Bildungsromans. (OCoLC)fst00831688
	Gangs. (OCoLC)fst00937695
	Mother and child. (OCoLC)fst01026878
	Widows. (OCoLC)fst01174951
Genre/Form	Literary fiction.
	Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
	Bildungsromans. (OCoLC)fst01726536
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Bildungsromans.
	Psychological fiction.
	Bildungsromans.
	Fiction.
Added Author	Moore, Michael, 1954 August 24- translator.
Added Title	Agostino. English
ISBN	9781590177235 (paperback)
	1590177231 (paperback)
	9781590177372 (electronic book)

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