'publisher="Farrar, Straus and Young"' in OBA Collectie

A squad of GI's doggedly intent upon keeping alive through the nightmare of battle on a Pacific island of mud and munsoons during World War II. One of the soldiers is the young and sensitive Lorry Adams, a homosexual, who becomes trapped by the calculat...

Een jonge Italiaan zoekt zijn weg in het na-oorlogse Napels. Hij is wereldwijs, maar onervaren en daarom heel ongeduldig op zoek naar wat het leven hem te bieden heeft.

Set among the folkways of poor white Alabama trash, this is a story "rich in local color (with lotsa junked washing machines and cars up on blocks in front yards). It is a disarmingly honest revelation of the troubled mind of a Southern boy. I'll say it...

An amazing and frightening picture of post-war Italian youth. In striking kaleidoscopic prose, against the background of destruction and poverty in a canal town near Venice, the story of the Boy and his vividly contrasted young friend develops. The main...