Those who leave and those who stay
Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers 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.
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Female friendship > Italy > Fiction. Self-realization in women > Fiction. Naples (Italy) > Fiction. |
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Psychological fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 160945233X
- ISBN: 9781609452339
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Physical Description
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418 pages ; 21 cm. - Publisher New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2014.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translation of: Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta. "Middle time"--Title page. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 20.00 |