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Arturo's island / Elsa Morante ; translated by Ann Goldstein.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
F MORA	Adult Fiction		Adult Lending	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781782274957 (paperback)
Classification	F MORA
Personal Name	Morante, Elsa, 1912-1985
Uniform Title	Isola di Arturo.
Title	Arturo's island / Elsa Morante ; translated by Ann Goldstein.
Production & Copyright Details	London : Pushkin Press, 2019.
Production & Copyright Details	©2019
Physical Description	x, 370 pages ; 20 cm.
Content type	text
Note	Arturo's island was first published as L'isola di Arturo in Milan, 1957.
	This translation first published by W. W. Norton & Company Inc. in 2019.
	Translated from the Italian.
Summary Note	Young Arturo grows up in near-isolation on the island of Procida in the Bay of Naples. His mother died in childbirth and his wayward father, who left him as a child in the care of a servant on the island, returns only sporadically. Cut off from the island community, Arturo exists almost entirely in solitude: he roams the island with his beloved dog, sails in his boat and reads tales of virtuous heroes and adventurers whom he imagines resemble his father. The boy's world is upended when his father arrives from Naples with his new wife Nunziata, who at sixteen is only a few years older than Arturo. Their presence shatters his childhood idyll, awakening passionate feelings and drawing the family towards painful conflict.
Subject - Topical Term	Fathers and sons -- Fiction
	Stepmothers -- Fiction
	Families -- Italy -- Fiction
	Islands -- Italy -- Fiction
	Solitude -- Fiction
	Teenage boys -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction
Subject - Geographic Name	Procida Island (Italy) -- Fiction
Subject - Genre	Bildungsromans
Added Entry - Personal Name	Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator.

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