Fri, July 17, | From 7:00 am - 9:00 am

Dante Alighieri Society Book Club
Friday, July 17, 2015 7 pm 630 N Old Woodward – Time: 7-9 pm
Suite 102 Birmingham, MI 48009

Agostino By Alberto Moravia
Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan sea-side resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and un-loved, begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. Though repelled by their squalor and brutality, and repeatedly hu-miliated for his weakness and ignorance when it comes to women and sex, the boy is increasingly, masochistically drawn to the gang and its rough games. He finds himself unable to make sense of his troubled feelings.

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