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008			150120s20142014nyu 000 1 eng
020			_a9781590177235
050	0	0	_aPQ4829.O62 _bA6313 2014
082	1		_aFIC _2 MOR
100	1		_aMoravia, Alberto _d(, 1907-1990)
245	1	0	_aAgostino _c/ Alberto Moravia ; translated by Michael F. Moore.
260			_aNew York _b: NYRB _c, 2014
300			_a111 p. _c; 21 cm.
490	0		_aNew York Review Books Classics
520			_aA 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.
650		4	_aComing of age _x-Fiction
650		4	_aMother and daughter _x-Fiction
650			_aGangs _v--Fiction
650		4	_aWidows _v--Fiction
700	1		_aMoore, Michael, 1954-
942			_cMO
999			_c228811 _d228811