The conformist : a novel / Alberto Moravia ; translated from the Italian by Tami Calliope.

Author/Creator:

Moravia, Alberto, 1907-1990.

Standardized Title:

Conformista. English

Publication:

South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Italia : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c1999.

Format/Description:

Book
323 p. ; 22 cm.

Subjects:

Fascism -- Italy -- Fiction.
Assassins -- Italy -- Fiction.
Italy -- Politics and government -- 1922-1945 -- Fiction.
Assassins.
Fascism.
Political science.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Historical fiction.
Fiction.

Summary:

"Since childhood [Marcello] Clerici has struggled with conflicting urges--a compulsion to hurt others and an obsessive desire to conform. ... When he is assigned to kill a former professor, now in exile, and falls unexpectedly in love with a strange, compelling woman, his life is torn open."--Cover.

Notes:

"First published in 1951 by Farrar, Straus and Company"--T.p. verso.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Penn Chronology:

1999

Contributor:

Calliope, Tami.
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

ISBN:

1883642655 (alk. paper)
9781883642655 (alk. paper)
1883642809 (alk. paper)
9781883642808 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

42393586

Online:

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