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    "description": "When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, its with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. Sensitive,insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When he meets the worldly Julian in his ethics class, Paul is immediatley drawn to his classmate\u2019s effortless charm.\n\nPaul sees Julian as his sole intellectual equal - an ally  against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. Paul will stop at  nothing to prove himself worthy of their friendship because with Julian life is more invigorating than Paul could ever have imagined. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel, and Paul becomes increasingly afraid that he can never live up to what Julian expects of him.\n\nAs their friendship spirals into all-consuming intimacy, they each learn the lengths to which the other Will go in order to stay together, their obsession ultimatley hurtling them toward an act of irrevocable violence. Unfolding with a propulsive ferocity, These violent delights is an exquistley plotted excavation of the depths of human desire and the darkness it can bring forth.",
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