{"product_id":"the-time-of-indifference-a-novel","title":"The Time of Indifference: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIN 1929  THE FIFTH YEAR of the Fascist era and the twenty-first year of Alberto Moravias life  the Italian literary world was stunned by the appearance of his first novel  The Time of Indifference. It was a deceptively simple story - five characters  the events of a few days  the intrigues of families and lovers. The place is Rome. The central figure is Michele  a young man in confused but furious rebellion against the emptiness of bourgeois life. His father is dead; his mother  Mariagrazia  desperately clings to her bored lover  Leo; his sister has no hope of marriage or career and bleakly prepares to give herself to Leo as well. A frequent visitor is Leos former lover  Lisa  ostensibly Mariagrazias friend  a woman who feels she is in the final late bloom before age destroys beauty. She longs to make Michele her lover  but he is bored and disgusted by her pretenses  her vanity  her desperation. All five are cast loose on the sea of modern life - obsessed with what they want  what they feel they are owed  the wrongs that have been done them  their loneliness. What Moravia destroys forever in this pitiless novel is the illusion that a world of ever-growing material comfort can ever feed the human soul.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44947403374645,"sku":"ByrdShop_1586420054","price":316.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781586420055.jpg?v=1770013301","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-time-of-indifference-a-novel","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}