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Growing up in Venice in the 1930s, Niles, 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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Profane Friendship, Harold Brodkey
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- Released
- 1995
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- Title
- Profane Friendship
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Harold Brodkey
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 1995
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0099476312
- ISBN13
- 9780099476313
- Series
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
- Description
- Growing up in Venice in the 1930s, Niles, 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.





