Word: crass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first story, life lays a sudden crass hand on the innocence of 13-year-old Agostino. He is staying at a seaside resort with his lovely widowed mother. She has made up to him for his father's death by being even more to him than most mothers. But when she falls in love with a young man, she has little time for Agostino. Idling about the beach, he gets in with a bunch of young toughs, sons of the waiters and fishermen. They know a world which well-to-do Agostino has never even glimpsed, a world...