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      Petrolio

      by Pier Paolo Pasolini
      Published
      Mar 1997
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      470
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      An unfinished novel by the murdered Italian author and filmmaker focuses on Carlo, a left-wing Italian Catholic working for the state-controlled oil company, a man who becomes obsessed with satisfying his perverse, insatiable sexual passions.

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