Profane Friendship

Harold Brodkey

Original title: Profane friendship

first published 1994 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004 400 pages

In Profane Friendship, Harold Brodkey tells an odd and strangely beautiful Venetian love story, sounding its depths with the suppleness and virtuosity of style that in recent years have won him worldwide admiration as a uniquely gifted American writer. Growing up in Venice in the 1930s, Niles O'Hara, the son of an expatriate American novelist, loves a Venetian boy named Giangiacomo Gallieni, fondly known as Onni. Af...

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Profane Friendship edition · 2004 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 400 pages · 9780374529734
Profane friendship edition · 1995 · Vintage · 320 pages
Profane friendship edition · 1994 · Mercury House · 387 pages
Profane friendship edition · 1994 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 387 pages
Profane friendship edition · 1994 · Cape · 387 pages

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