{"product_id":"9781590177372","title":"Agostino","description":"Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside  resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a  cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, begins  hanging around with a group of local young toughs. Though repelled by  their squalor and brutality, and repeatedly humiliated 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. Hoping to be full of  manly calm, he is instead beset by guilty  curiosity and an urgent  desire to sever, at any cost, the thread of troubled sensuality that  binds him to his mother. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlberto Moravia’s classic, startling  portrait of innocence lost was written in 1942 but rejected by Fascist  censors and not published until 1944, when it became a best seller and  secured the author the first literary prize of his career. Revived here  in a new translation by Michael F. Moore, \u003ci\u003eAgostino \u003c\/i\u003eis poised to captivate a twenty-first-century audience.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167949701360,"sku":"9781590177372","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590177372_p0.jpg?v=1763809424","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590177372","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}