The Lying Life of Adults

Literature & Fiction

FERRANTE, ELENA

United States

Random House Audio |

"Original title: L'amica geniale"--Title page verso.

My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels)

Literary

Thorndike Press Large Print

Lila is imprisoned by marriage, while Elena continues her journey of self-discovery, until their friendship, which is at the center of their emotional lives, forces them both to mature into women.

The Story Of A New Name (Thorndike Basic)

Genre Fiction

A New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the 2016 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE Named TIME Magazine's #1 Book in it's "10 Best Fiction Books of 2015" list Named one of the "10 Best Fiction Books of 2015" by The New York Times Book Review Named one of the "10 Best Fiction Books of 2015" by People Magazine Featured in the Wall Street Journal's list of "15 Books to Read This Fall Included as one of “30 blockbuster novels to look out for this fall” by Entertainment Weekly Listed as one of Publisher Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2015 Included in the Kirkus list of "21 Must-read Fall books Featured as one of the New York Times Book Review's "100 Notable Books of 2015 The Neapolitan Novels (Book 4) Here is the conclusion of the dazzling saga of two friends, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Theirs is a long and remarkable story that readers will return to again and again, and, like Elena and Lila themselves, every return will bring with it new discoveries.

The Story Of The Lost Child (Thorndike Basic)

The incredible story continues in book three of the critically acclaimed Neapolitan Novels! Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship. In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women have attempted are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.

Those Who Leave And Those Whostay (Thorndike Basic)

The Lying Life of Adults (Thorndike Press Large Print Core)

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY 
The Washington Post - O, The Oprah Magazine - TIME Magazine - NPR - Financial Times - New York Post - Kirkus Reviews - Harper's Bazaar 
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER 
In this powerful novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, fourteen-year-old Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which wears a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity, where her guide is the unforgettable Aunt Vittoria. 
With this new novel about the passage from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, Ferrante gives her readers another gripping, highly addictive, Neapolitan story. 
"Another spellbinding coming-of-age tale from a master."--People Magazine

Large Print Press

"Everyone should read everything with Elena Ferrante's name on it."--The Boston Globe 
"Ferrante is an oracle among authors, writing literary epics as illuminating as origin myths, explaining us to ourselves."--Claire Luchette, O, The Oprah Magazine 
Four essays on writing and reading by the internationally bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults.

In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing (Thorndike Press Large Print Basics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Thorndike Press

The Beach at Night: Library Edition

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Blackstone Pub

The Story of a New Name follows Elena Ferrante's critically acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. These young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times while driving them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls mature into women, paying the sometimes cruel price that this passage exacts.

The Story of a New Name: Library Edition (Neapolitan Novels, 2)

Contemporary

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The Lying Life of Adults

My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels)

The Story Of A New Name (Thorndike Basic)

The Story Of The Lost Child (Thorndike Basic)

Those Who Leave And Those Whostay (Thorndike Basic)

The Lying Life of Adults (Thorndike Press Large Print Core)

The Lying Life of Adults

In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing (Thorndike Press Large Print Basics)

The Beach at Night: Library Edition

The Story of a New Name: Library Edition (Neapolitan Novels, 2)