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Pier Paolo Pasolini: Boys Alive Gosha Rubchinskiy Gravity Road was a precursorNYRB Classics, 2023, softcover, 224 pages, 12. 7 x 20. 2 cm A daring novel, once widely censored, about the scrappy, harrowing, and inventive lives of Rome's unhoused youth by one of Italy's greatest film directors. Boys Alive, published in 1955, was Pier Paolo Pasolini's first novel and remains his best known work of fiction. He'd moved to Rome a few years before, after finding himself embroiled in a provincial sex scandal, and the impact of the city