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Elena Ferrante - The Lying Life of Adults (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
From the author of My Brilliant Friend, a powerful new novel set in a divided Naples.
"Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my parents, newly married, had bought in Rione Alto, at the top of Via San Giacomo dei Capri. Everything - the spaces of Naples, the blue light of a very cold February, those words - remained fixed."
Giovanna’s pretty face has changed: it’s turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent . . . But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and save herself?
She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, which professes to be a place of excess and vulgarity.
She moves between these two cities, disoriented by the fact that, whether high or low, the city seems to offer no answer and no escape.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Fiction : Families & Sagas
- Published : 2020 (This Edition 2021 - Europa Editions)
- ISBN : 9781787703124
- SKU : B002708
- PPC : LL300gm
- RRP : £8.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"Following the fortunes of an adolescent girl through changing family dynamics and growing self-realisation, The Lying Life of Adults is a pitch-perfect dissection of Italian family life and the follies of youth." - Waterstones.
'Modern, urgent, truthful.' - The Telegraph.
'Elena Ferrante is an expert chronicler of adolescence and its many indignities, as well as its erratic, overwhelming passions.' - The Observer.
'An astonishing, deeply moving tale of the sorts of wisdom, beauty and knowledge that remain as unruly as the determinedly inharmonious faces of these women.' - The Guardian.
'Ferrante is a hypnotist.' - The Spectator.
'The most intense writing about the experiences and interior life of a girl on the cusp of adulthood that I have ever read.' - Financial Times.
The Author
Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most widely known works. Time magazine called Ferrante one of the 100 most influential people in 2016.
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