Agostino
Moravia, Alberto, 1907-19902025
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Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. Though repelled by their squalor and brutality, and repeatedly humiliated for his weakness and ignorance when it comes to women and sex, the boy is increasingly, masochistically drawn to the gang and its rough games. He finds himself unable to make sense of his troubled feelings. Hoping to be full of manly calm, he is instead beset by guilty curiosity and an urgent desire to sever, at any cost, the thread of troubled sensuality that binds him to his mother.
Main title:
Agostino / Alberto Moravia.
Author:
Moravia, Alberto, 1907-1990, author
Imprint:
Milan : Bompiani, 2025.
Collation:
176 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Text in Italian
ISBN:
9788830152915 (pbk)
Dewey class:
F
Local class:
FIC
Language:
Italian
Subject:
BRN:
4319376