<p>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.</p>

Profane Frienship

Harold Brodkey

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On the release of his short stories in 1958, Brodkey was hailed as a major writer; the release of this, his first novel, announced in 1964 and subject to numerous delays and revisions, is thus one of the most long-awaited and keenly-anticipated events in American publishing and literary circles.

The Runaway Soul

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Vintage

Stories In An Almost Classical Mode

Picador

This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Fourth Estate Ltd.

Gast im Universum

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