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The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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From the author of My Brilliant Friend, a powerful new novel set in a divided Naples. Soon to be adapted into a NETFLIX original series.
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Incendiary. - Mail on Sunday
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
An astonishing, deeply moving tale. - The Guardian
Modern, urgent, truthful. - The Telegraph
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? Where must she look to find her true reflection and a life she can claim as her own?
Giovanna's search leads her to 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, a place of excess and vulgarity. Adrift, she vacillates between these two cities, falling into one then climbing back to the other.
This powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by bestselling author Elena Ferrante is a singular portrayal of the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood.
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Elena Ferrante's The Lying Life of Adults is praised for its truthful, modern depiction of adolescence, capturing the tumultuous emotions and internal life of a teenage girl. Critics commend Ferrante's ability to immerse readers inside the protagonist's mind, presenting her experiences as both intensely personal and universally relatable. The novel's vivid characters and suspenseful storytelling continue Ferrante's tradition of delivering deeply moving narratives, enriching her celebrated canon of work.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781787703124
Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 July 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Contributors:
- Translated by Ann Goldstein
- Translated by Ann Goldstein
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 336
About the Author
Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008) and the four volumes of the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child), published by Europa Editions between 2012 and 2015. She is also the author of a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night, and a work of non-fiction, Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey. Incidental Inventions, her collected Guardian columns, was published in 2019.
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