{"product_id":"9781883642655","title":"The Conformist","description":"Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of \u003ci\u003eThe Conformist\u003c\/i\u003e,  a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici  is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect  him, the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political police  during the Mussolini years. But then he is assigned to kill his former professor,  now in exile, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state, and falls in love  with a strange, compelling woman; his life is torn open - and with it the corrupt  heart of Fascism. Moravia equates the rise of Italian Fascism with the psychological  needs of his protagonist for whom conformity becomes an obsession in a life that  has included parental neglect, an oddly self-conscious desire to engage in cruel  acts, and a type of male beauty which, to Clerici's great distress, other men find  attractive.","brand":"Alberto Moravia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":57809262575776,"sku":"9781883642655","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ef9d177c-6073-4589-be68-8c9b66a2e7f4.jpg?v=1781017687","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9781883642655","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}