Profane Friendship

✍ Scribed by Brodkey, Harold

• Book ID: 108902600
• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 1944
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 362 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Growing up in Venice in the 1930's, Niles O'Hara, the son of an expatriate writer, befriends a Venetian boy, Giangiacomo Gallieni. 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. Searching, comic, romantic, and ironic, Profane Friendship is a remarkable study of a strange, provocative, powerful relationship conducted in the matchlessly human-scaled, triumphantly beautiful setting of the world's most alluring city.