Bibliograph

The street kids, Pier Paolo Pasolini ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

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The street kids, Pier Paolo Pasolini ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The street kids

Oclc number

911171821

Responsibility statement

Pier Paolo Pasolini ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Summary

The Street Kids is the most important novel by Italy's preeminent late-20th Century author and intellectual, Pier Paolo Pasolini. It tells the story of Riccetto, a poor urchin who lives on the outskirts of Rome. Readers meet him at his first communion in 1944 during the German occupation of Italy. In the years that follow, drifting ever further from family and friends, Riccetto moves from petty theft to more elaborate cons and finally to prostitution. He is arrested and jailed after trying to steal some iron in order to buy his fianceé an engagemnet ring

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