Behind the door / Giorgio Bassani ; translated by William Weaver.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Harbrace paperbound library ; HPL 66Publication details: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976, c1972.Description: 150 p. ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 0156116855
  • 9780156116855
Uniform titles:
  • Dietro la porta. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 853/.914
LOC classification:
  • PQ4807.A79 D5413 1976
Online resources: Summary: A sheltered sixteen-year-old Jewish boy in Ferrara reflects on a critical period of his schooldays in 1929-1930. He makes friends with the leader of the class, a boy with the right looks and the right religion, and with a new boy who joins the class--another "outsider". While the young Jew is shy and naive, the newcomer is aggressive, cynical, sexually unihibited. Bassani subtly explores the relations of the three boys, as events lead to a shattering betrayal of trust.
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Book Book Stonewall Fiction FIC BAS 1972 1 Available 01561168551

Translation of Dietro la porta.

"A Harvest/HBJ book"

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."

A sheltered sixteen-year-old Jewish boy in Ferrara reflects on a critical period of his schooldays in 1929-1930. He makes friends with the leader of the class, a boy with the right looks and the right religion, and with a new boy who joins the class--another "outsider". While the young Jew is shy and naive, the newcomer is aggressive, cynical, sexually unihibited. Bassani subtly explores the relations of the three boys, as events lead to a shattering betrayal of trust.

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