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008 120813s2013 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2012029934
020 $a9780374270445 (hardback)
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050 00 $aPQ4916.A337$bA2 2013
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100 1 $aPacifico, Francesco,$d1977-
240 10 $aStoria della mia purezza.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe story of my purity /$cFrancesco Pacifico ; translated from the Italian by Stephen Twilley.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2013.
300 $a293 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $a"Originally published in 2010 by Mondadori, Italy, as Storia della mia purezza"--T.p. verso
520 $a"An exuberant tale of a man caught between faith and freedom, from one of Italy's most talented young novelists Thirty years old, growing flabby in a sexless marriage, Piero Rosini has decided to dedicate his life to Jesus. Novels and music were filling his head with bullshit; his bourgeois life in a fancy neighborhood had taken him far away from spiritual purity and the Lord's truth. So he's moved to an unfinished housing development on the outskirts of Rome and thrown himself into his work at an ultraconservative Catholic publishing house, editing books that highlight the decadence and degradation of modern society, including a book claiming that Pope John Paul II was secretly Jewish. But Piero is suffocating. He worries that The Jewish Pope might be taking things too far. He can't get his beautiful sister-in-law out of his head. Temptations (both physical and intellectual) are breaking down his religious resolve. He decides to flee to Paris, which turns out not to be the best way of guarding his purity. With a charismatic narrator who is as familiar with the finer points of theology as he is with the floor layout of IKEA and the workings of budget airlines, Francesco Pacifico's exuberant novel brings us Europe old and new and the inner workings of a conflicted but always compelling mind. The Story of My Purity is fiction with great humor, intelligence, and vision, from a young writer at the beginning of a tremendous career"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"A novel: A young man gradually loses his ultra-Catholic convictions as he flees pious Rome for the sensual delights of Paris"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aTwilley, Stephen.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/445/9780374270445/image/lgcover.9780374270445.jpg