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Article: Embracing Contradiction
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 6, 1994
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PROFANE FRIENDSHIP
By Harold Brodkey
Farrar Straus Giroux. 384 pp. $22
HAROLD BRODKEY'S new novel is about the friendship between Niles
O'Hara, an American brought to Venice as a child and soon known as
Nino, and Giangiacomo Gallieni, a true Venetian, known as Onni. They
meet as young schoolboys, and develop one of those intense and
largely inexplicable bonds - a kind of love which later cools and is
interrupted by war and distance, then rekindles, veers towards sex
and veers away, but endures, still complexly eroticized, into old
age. The two men are quite unlike each other, Nino sensually shy,
difficult, philosophical, Onni whorish, unknowable and obsessed by
his sense of his own ...
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