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1. 1. Una Storia Di San Francisco

   

   Set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, the novel follows a coarse but ordinary dentist whose marriage to a dour, acquisitive woman—sealed after she comes into a modest windfall—unravels as money, jealousy, and instinctual violence corrode their lives. What begins as a simple domestic existence gives way to mounting tensions among friends and neighbors, exposing inherited impulses and social pressures that drive the characters toward ever more brutal behavior. The narrative traces their moral and physical decline from petty comforts into desperation and a final, violent confrontation in the harsh Californian outskirts, presenting a stark naturalist portrait of determinism, appetite, and the corrosive power of material obsession.

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