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      Ernesto

      by Umberto Saba
      Published
      Aug 1989
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      176
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      A coming of age story that is a classic of gay literature, now in English for the first time 

      An NYRB Classics Original

      Ernesto is a classic of gay literature, a tender and complex tale of sexual awakening by one of Italy's most admired poets. Ernesto is a sixteen-year-old boy from an educated family who lives with his mother in Trieste. His mother is eager for him to get ahead and has asked a local businessman to give him some workplace experience in his warehouse. One day a workingman makes advances to Ernesto, who responds with willing curiosity. A month of trysts ensues before the boy begins to tire of the relationship, finally escaping it altogether by engineering his own dismissal. And yet his experience has changed him, and as Umberto Saba's unfinished, autobiographical story breaks off, Ernesto has struck up a new, oddly romantic attachment to a boy his own age.

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      First Edition Aug 1989 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9780586087411 ISBN10 0586087419
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      Apr 2017 New York Review of Books ISBN13 9781681370828 ISBN10 1681370824
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      Aug 2017 Head of Zeus ISBN13 9781786690685 ISBN10 1786690683
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      Jan 1987 Carcanet Press ISBN13 9780856355592 ISBN10 0856355593
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      Feb 2017 NYRB Classics ISBN10 B01G0GBFPQ
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      Mar 2017 New York Review Books ISBN13 9781681370835 ISBN10 1681370832
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