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The conformist : a novel / Alberto Moravia ; translated from the Italian by Tami Calliope.
LIBRA PQ4829.O62 C67813 1999 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moravia, Alberto, 1907-1990.
- Standardized Title:
- Conformista. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Fascism--Italy--Fiction.
- Fascism.
- Assassins--Italy--Fiction.
- Assassins.
- Politics and government.
- Italy--Politics and government--1922-1945--Fiction.
- Italy.
- Political science.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 323 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Italia : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [1999]
- Summary:
- "Since childhood [Marcello] Clerici has struggled with conflicting urges--a compulsion to hurt others and an obsessive desire to conform. ... When he is assigned to kill a former professor, now in exile, and falls unexpectedly in love with a strange, compelling woman, his life is torn open."--Cover.
- Notes:
- "First published in 1951 by Farrar, Straus and Company"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 1883642655
- 9781883642655
- 1883642809
- 9781883642808
- OCLC:
- 42393586
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