The Catholic school /
Albinati, Edoardo,
The Catholic school / Edoardo Albinati ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. - First American edition. - 1268 pages ; 25 cm
"Originally published in Italian in 2016 by Rizzoli, Italy, as La scuola cattolica."
Christians and lions -- Flesh for fantasies -- Victory is making you suffer -- Struggle of interests in a contest of inequality -- Collective M -- The missing shoulder -- Vergeltungswaffe -- The confessions -- Cosmo -- Like trees planted along the river.
"A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre"-- A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story. Albinati's narrator, a student at Rome's prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno, describes life with his teachers and fellow classmates-- the charming Arbus, the literature teacher Cosmos, and his only Fascist friend, Max. These reflections include blend with the legacy of abuse, the Italian bourgeoisie, and the relationship between sex, violence, and masculinity. They combine with an event in 1975, when three well-off young men-- former students at San Leone Magno-- brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women. -- adapted from jacket
Translated from the Italian.
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2018047854
Murder--Italy--San Felice Circeo--Fiction.
Rape--Italy--Fiction.
San Felice Circeo (Italy)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Autobiographical fiction.
Novels.
The Catholic school / Edoardo Albinati ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. - First American edition. - 1268 pages ; 25 cm
"Originally published in Italian in 2016 by Rizzoli, Italy, as La scuola cattolica."
Christians and lions -- Flesh for fantasies -- Victory is making you suffer -- Struggle of interests in a contest of inequality -- Collective M -- The missing shoulder -- Vergeltungswaffe -- The confessions -- Cosmo -- Like trees planted along the river.
"A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre"-- A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story. Albinati's narrator, a student at Rome's prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno, describes life with his teachers and fellow classmates-- the charming Arbus, the literature teacher Cosmos, and his only Fascist friend, Max. These reflections include blend with the legacy of abuse, the Italian bourgeoisie, and the relationship between sex, violence, and masculinity. They combine with an event in 1975, when three well-off young men-- former students at San Leone Magno-- brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women. -- adapted from jacket
Translated from the Italian.
9780374119256 0374119252
2018047854
Murder--Italy--San Felice Circeo--Fiction.
Rape--Italy--Fiction.
San Felice Circeo (Italy)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Autobiographical fiction.
Novels.