My Brilliant Friend : Neapolitan Novels, Book One
Now an HBO series, book one in the -- Entertainment Weekly Ferrante is one of the world's great storytellers. With -- she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.
Other Formats
Browse Related Items
Genre |
Electronic books. |
- ISBN: 9781609458638
- Physical Description 1 online resource. 336 pages.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : Europa Editions, 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Electronic book. GMD: electronic resource. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Europa Editions 2012 Available via World Wide Web. |
System Details Note: | Format: Adobe EPUB Requires: cloudLibrary (file size: 1.4 MB) |
Series
Additional Information
My Brilliant Friend
Click an element below to view details:
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