My brilliant friend
Record details
- ISBN: 1609450787 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781609450786 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
331 p. ; 21 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Europa Editions, 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translation of: L'amica geniale. "Book one : childhood, adolescence." |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue : eliminating all the traces -- Childhood : the story of Don Achille -- Adolescence : the story of the shoes. |
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Subject: | Friendship Fiction Naples (Italy) Fiction |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | F FERRANTE NEAPOLITAN V.1 (Text) | 000143982 | Fiction | Available | - |
My Brilliant Friend
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Summary
My Brilliant Friend
Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times -bestselling "enduring masterpiece" about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples ( The Atlantic ). Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante's four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflicted friendship. This first novel in the series follows Lila and Elena from their fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between two women. "An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends." -- Entertainment Weekly "Spectacular." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "Captivating." -- The New Yorker