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Profane Friendship - by  Harold Brodkey (Paperback) - 1 of 1

Profane Friendship - by Harold Brodkey (Paperback)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: A staff writer for The New Yorker since the early 1950s, Harold Brodkey died in 1996.
  • 400 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres,

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Growing up in Venice in the 1930s, Niles O'Hara, the son of an expatriate writer, befriends a Venetian boy. 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.



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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.

Growing up in Venice in the 1930s, Niles O'Hara, the son of an expatriate writer, befriends a Venetian boy. 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.



About the Author



A staff writer for The New Yorker since the early 1950s, Harold Brodkey died in 1996. He was the author of books including The Runaway Soul, This Wild Darkness, My Venice and The World is the Home of Love and Death.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .89 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.29 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 400
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Theme: Gay
Format: Paperback
Author: Harold Brodkey
Language: English
Street Date: July 15, 2004
TCIN: 86313210
UPC: 9780374529734
Item Number (DPCI): 247-35-3477
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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