Those who leave and those who stay

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Label

Those who leave and those who stay

Statement of responsibility

Elena Ferrante

Creator

• Ferrante, Elena

Subject

• FICTION / Literary
• Female friendship -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Electronic books
• Naples (Italy) -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

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 eaders 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 of 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 seem them living a life of mystery, 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 see each other by a strong, unbreakable bond

Cataloging source

RECBK

Dewey number

853.92

Index

no index present

LC call number

PQ4866.E6345

LC item number

S8613 2014

Literary form

unknown

Nature of contents

dictionaries