Boys Alive

by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Book Overview

A daring novel, once widely censored, about the scrappy, harrowing, and inventive lives of Rome's unhoused youth by one of Italy's greatest film directors.

Boys Alive, published in 1955, was Pier Paolo Pasolini's first work of fiction and it remains his best known. Written in the aftermath of Pasolini's move from the provinces to Rome, the novel captures the. hunger and anger, waywardness and squalor of the big city. The life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681377624
• ISBN13: 9781681377629
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"