The story of a new name : youth

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Title:

The story of a new name : youth

Author:

Ferrante, Elena, author.

Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator.

Series:

Neapolitan ;

Series Number:

Summary:

Friends Lila and Elena are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls mature into women, paying the cruel price that this passage exacts.

General Note:

"Original title: Storia del nuovo cognome"--Title page verso.

Edition:

Large print edition.

Physical Description:

731 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Genre:

Large type books.

Historical fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Subject Term:

Greco, Elena (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Carullo, Lina (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Marital conflict -- Fiction.

Self-perception in women -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Naples (Italy) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Author(s):

Goldstein, Ann, 1949-

Publisher:

Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning Gale,

Publication Date:

2016

2012

ISBN:

9781410491176

Publication Information:

Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning Gale, 2016.

Call Number:

LP FERRANT

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Summary

A New York Times BestsellerThe Neapolitan Novels (Book 2)A modern masterpice from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors. My Brillant Briend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted portrait of two friends, Elena and Lila. Through their lives, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country undergoing momentous change.

Author Notes

Elena Ferrante was born in Naples, Italy. Her work includes Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, The Story of the Lost Child, The Story of a New Name, The Lost Daughter, Fragments, and My Brilliant Friend. She is the author of My Brilliant Friend which made The New York Times Bestsellers List and The New Zealand Best Seller List 2015. She was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The second in a trilogy, book two rejoins narrator Elena Greco and her "brilliant friend" Lina Cerullo as they leave behind their claustrophobic Italian girlhood and enter the tumultuous world of young womanhood with all its accompanying love, loss, and confusion. Against the backdrop of l960s/70s Naples, the previously inseparable girls embark on diverse paths. At 16, Lila has married the prosperous local grocer, Stefano Carraci, only to discover at their wedding reception that he has already betrayed her and damned their union. Conversely Elena has chosen education, a less traditional route to free her from the stultifying village life. Lina asks Elena to hide a box of notebooks from her husband. Instead, she dumps them in the river but not without first reading them. Ferrante masterfully combines Elena's recollections of events with Lila's point of view as documented in her notebooks to drive the narrative. The women's fraught relationship and shifting fortunes are the life forces of this poignant book. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.