The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante
The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante
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The Lying Life of Adults

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Author: Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

Narrator: Marisa Tomei

Unabridged: 10 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2020


Synopsis

Soon to be a NETFLIX Original Series.

A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.

“There’s no doubt [the publication of The Lying Life of Adults] will be the literary event of the year.”—Elle 

Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is.

Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: a Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and a Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves between both in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or escape.

Named one of 2016’s most influential people by TIME Magazine and frequently touted as a future Nobel Prize-winner, Elena Ferrante has become one of the world’s most read and beloved writers. With this novel about the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, Ferrante proves once again that she deserves her many accolades. In The Lying Life of Adults, listeners will discover another gripping, highly addictive, and totally unforgettable Neapolitan story.

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2020
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About The Author

Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), which was made into a film directed by Roberto Faenza, Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), adapted by Mario Martone, and The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), soon to be a film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. She is also the author of Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey (Europa, 2016) in which she recounts her experience as a novelist, and a children’s picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016). The four volumes known as the “Neapolitan quartet” (My Brilliant FriendThe Story of a New NameThose Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) were published in America by Europa between 2012 and 2015. The first season of the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 2018.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Adam on September 02, 2020

Full Review: If The Lying Life of Adults, the marvelous new novel by the pseudonymous Elena Ferrante, doesn’t reach the soaring heights of her masterpiece, The Story of a New Name, that is mainly an issue of the Ferrantean accumulation—deep networks of supporting characters, all with rich inner live......more

Goodreads review by Violet on November 22, 2020

This novel has such an ingenious yet simple premise and it's a lot more topical than most reviewers have given it credit for. You sense Ferrante never dates the novel's events for this reason. Essentially, it dramatizes through a single family the conflict between the liberal well-educated elite and......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 09, 2021

It’s good that you’re spending time with people who are better than you, it’s the only way to go up not down. The identity of the “neighbourhood” in Elena Ferrante’s epic Neopolitan Quartet was not explicitly mentioned in the novels but those who knew the city soon recognised the setting as the Rione......more

Goodreads review by Ruxandra on August 23, 2022

E interesant ca după tetralogia napolitană să treci la alte povești scrise de Ferrante. Aici, cel puțin, lipsesc sclipirea, suspansul, relațiile încâlcite dintre personaje și, într-o anumită măsură, contextul politic mai larg care m-au făcut să îndrăgesc așa de tare Povestea noului nume sau Cei care......more

Goodreads review by Baba Yaga Reads on September 08, 2020

Se questo libro mi fosse stato recapitato sotto forma di fascicolo anonimo, senza indicazione di titolo o nome dell’autore, credo che avrei impiegato poche righe per capire che si trattava dell’ultima fatica di Elena Ferrante. Gli ingredienti ci sono tutti: Napoli, descritta nei suoi particolari più......more