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The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Elena Ferrante

The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER By Elena Ferrante

The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Elena Ferrante

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The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Elena Ferrante

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

From the author of My Brilliant Friend, a powerful new novel set in a divided Naples

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Soon to be adapted into a NETFLIX original series

"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.


TO BE PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN OVER 40 COUNTRIES: AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER IN THE MAKING!

THE ITALIAN EDITION OF THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS (November 2019) HAS SOLD OVER 300,000 COPIES, REMAINING STEADY AT THE TOP END OF NATIONAL BESTSELLER LISTS

BBC Radio 4 Book At Bedtime adaptation to be broadcast over 2 weeks at time of publication.

The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Reviews

"Modern, urgent, truthful." -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * The Telegraph *
"Elena Ferrante is an expert chronicler of adolescence and its many indignities, as well as its erratic, overwhelming passions." * The Observer *
"Ferrante is unbeatable at pulling you inside the mind of a teenage girl, making you see how everything that looks irrational from the outside - the moods, the silences, the jealousy, tears, fears and resentments - are utterly logical and reasonable." * The Times *
"Layer by layer, piece by piece, with her customary deftness, Ferrante builds up her story, introducing new characters and bits of information, as Giovanna's once safe and sane world becomes ever more slippery.... Ferrante has a voice very much her own." * The TLS *
"The most intense writing about the experiences and interior life of a girl on the cusp of adulthood that I have ever read." -- Isabel Berwick
"Exquisitely moody." -- Merve Emre * The Atlantic *
"Elena Ferrante is so good.... 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." -- Lara Feigel * The Guardian *
"Ferrante's page-turner talent for suspenseful storytelling and scenes teeming with vivid characters finds terrific scope ... From this gorgeous and squalid two-tier city that haunts her imagination comes another compulsive novel." -- Peter Kemp * The Sunday Times *
"The accurate and evocative depiction of adolescence is also a significant factor in the fierce devotion inspired by the works of the Italian writer Elena Ferrante ... Ann Goldstein, who has translated all of Ferrante's works into English, does so again here with precision and poise." -- Miranda Collinge * Esquire *
"An incendiary portrait of the volcanic currents of sex and betrayal rumbling away beneath polite society." -- Anthony Cummins * The Mail on Sunday *
"Ferrante is a hypnotist." -- Frances Wilson * The Spectator *
"Compulsive." -- Alex O'Donnell * The Times *
"Ferrante is finally back. Her new novel, the first since her blockbusting Neapolitan Quartet finished, takes us back to Naples." * The Times *
"The Lying Life of Adults simply enriches a magnificent canon which began with Troubling Love nearly 30 years ago. There's not a weak page, let alone a weak novel, among the eight to date." -- David Nice * The Arts Desk *
"The Lying Life of Adults has the magnitude of great literature - from Balzac to Stendhal to the always beloved Proust. It is a necessary book." * Il Manifesto *

About Elena Ferrante

Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter, 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. 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, were published in 2019. Ann Goldstein is one of the most accomplished translators from the Italian working today. Best known for her translations of Elena Ferrante's oeuvre, she has also brought to Anglo-Saxon readers novels by Primo Levi, Pierpaolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco and other classic and contemporary Italian writers.

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GOR010781086
9781787702400
1787702405
The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
2020-09-01
300
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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