{"product_id":"ernesto-9781681370828","title":"Ernesto","description":"\u003cb\u003eA coming of age story that is a classic of gay literature, now in English for the first time \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn NYRB Classics Original \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eErnesto 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681370828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Umberto Saba","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205100404917,"sku":"9781681370828","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_892257cd-903e-4004-bae6-d3dc0ffa7a34.jpg?v=1698128666","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ernesto-9781681370828","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}