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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 1609450787
- Book Title
- My Brilliant Friend
- Book Series
- Neapolitan Novels Ser.
- Publisher
- Europa Editions, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Contemporary Women, Coming of Age, Historical
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Europa Editions, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1609450787
ISBN-13
9781609450786
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113296285
Product Key Features
Book Title
My Brilliant Friend
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Contemporary Women, Coming of Age, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Neapolitan Novels Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-373178
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Praise for Elena Ferrante and The Neapolitan Novels "Everyone should read anything with Ferrante's name on it." -The Boston Globe "Ferrante's novels are intensely, violently personal, and because of this they seem to dangle bristling key chains of confession before the unsuspecting reader." - James Wood , The New Yorker "One of the more nuanced portraits of feminine friendship in recent memory." - Megan O'Grady , Vogue "Amazing! My Brilliant Friend took my breath away. If I were president of the world I would make everyone read this book. It is so honest and right and opens up heart to so much. Reading Ferrante reminded me of that child-like excitement when you can't look up from the page, when your eyes seem to be popping from your head, when you think: I didn't know books could do this!" - Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge "Elena Ferrante will blow you away." - Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones "Ferrante's emotional and carnal candor are so potent." - Janet Maslin , The New York Times "I like the Italian writer, Elena Ferrante, a lot. I've been reading all her work and all about her." - John Waters , actor and director ""Elena Ferrante tackles girlhood and friendship with amazing force."- Gwenyth Paltrow "Elena Ferrante may be the best contemporary novelist you've never heard of"- The Economist "[Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels] don't merely offer a teeming vision of working-class Naples, with its cobblers and professors, communists and mobbed-up businessmen, womanizing poets and downtrodden wives; they present one of modern fiction's richest portraits of a friendship." - John Powers , Fresh Air, NPR "Ferrante's freshness has nothing to do with fashion…it is imbued with the most haunting music of all, the echoes of literary history." - The New York Times Book Review "Elena Ferrante's THE STORY OF A NEW NAME, book two in her Naples series. Two words. Read it." - Ann Hood , author of The Obituary Writer "Ferrante writes with a ferocious, intimate urgency." - Susanna Sonnenberg , author of Her Last Death: A Memoir " The Days of Abandonment is a powerful, heartrending novel." - Jhumpa Lahiri, author of The Lowlands "I am such a fan of Ferrante's work, and have been for quite a while." - Jennifer Gilmore , author of The Mothers "No one has a voice quite like Ferrante's. Her gritty, ruthlessly frank novels roar off the page with a barbed fury, like an attack that is also a defense…Imagine if Jane Austen got angry and you'll have some idea of how explosive these works are." - John Freeman , The Australian "The women's fraught relationship and shifting fortunes are the life forces of the poignant book" - Publisher's Weekly "An engrossing, wildly original contemporary epic about the demonic power of human (and particularly female) creativity checked by the forces of history and society." - The Los Angeles Review of Books, #1 BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY - NEW YORK TIMES "A large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman."--James Wood, The New Yorker "One of modern fiction's richest portraits of a friendship."--John Powers, Fresh Air, NPR "Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time."--Roxana Robinson, The New York Times Book Review "Compelling, visceral and immediate . . . The Neapolitan novels are a tour de force."--Jennifer Gilmore, The Los Angeles Times "Elena Ferrante will blow you away."--Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones "Amazing! My Brilliant Friend took my breath away. If I were president of the world I would make everyone read this book. It is so honest and right and opens up heart to so much. Reading Ferrante reminded me of that child-like excitement when you can't look up from the page, when your eyes seem to be popping from your head, when you think: I didn't know books could do this!"--Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge "The Neapolitan novel cycle is an unconditional masterpiece . . . I read all the books in a state of immersion; I was totally enthralled. There was nothing else I wanted to do except follow the lives of Lila and Lenù to the end." --Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Lowland "Everyone should read anything with Ferrante's name on it." --The Boston Globe "Ferrante's own writing has no limits, is willing to take every thought forward to its most radical conclusion and backwards to its most radical birthing."--The New Yorker, "Everyone should read anything with [Elena Ferrante's] name on it." - The Boston Globe "One of the more nuanced portraits of feminine friendship in recent memory." - Vogue "This gorgeous novel should bring a host of new reader's to one of Italy's most acclaimed authors." - The Barnes and Noble Review "Ferrante, beautifully translated by Ann Goldstein...writes with a ferocious, intimate urgency." - The San Francisco Chronicle "Ferrante draws an indelible picture." - Shelf Awareness "A compelling and moving coming-of-age story" - Booklist "More than a conventional up-from-poverty tale." - Publishers Weekly, #1 BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY - NEW YORK TIMES "The book expands as propulsively as the early universe, encompassing ideas about art and politics, class and gender, philosophy and fate, all through a dedicated focus on the conflicted, competitive friendship between Elena and Lila...uncompromising, unforgettable."--The New York Times, The #1 Best Book of the 21st Century "A large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman."--James Wood, The New Yorker "One of modern fiction's richest portraits of a friendship."--John Powers, NPR's Fresh Air "Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time."--Roxana Robinson, The New York Times Book Review "Compelling, visceral and immediate...The Neapolitan novels are a tour de force."--Jennifer Gilmore, The Los Angeles Times "It took my breath away...so honest and right and opens up heart to so much."--Elizabeth Strout, writer "The Neapolitan novel cycle is an unconditional masterpiece."--Jhumpa Lahiri, writer "Everyone should read anything with Ferrante's name on it."--Eugenia Williamson, The Boston Globe "Ferrante's own writing has no limits, is willing to take every thought forward to its most radical conclusion and backwards to its most radical birthing."--The New Yorker "One of the more nuanced portraits of feminine friendship in recent memory."--Megan O'Grady, Vogue "It's just hypnotic. I could not stop reading it or thinking about it."--Hillary Clinton "Ferrante tackles girlhood and friendship with amazing force."--Gwyneth Paltrow, actor "Ferrante's writing seems to say something that hasn't been said before in a way so compelling its readers forget where they are, abandon friends and disdain sleep."--Joanna Biggs, The London Review of Books "Ferrante has written about female identity with a heft and sharpness unmatched by anyone since Doris Lessing."--Elizabeth Lowry, The Wall Street Journal "No one has a voice quite like Ferrante's. Her gritty, ruthlessly frank novels roar off the page with a barbed fury, like an attack that is also a defense...Imagine if Jane Austen got angry and you'll have some idea of how explosive these works are."--John Freeman, writer "When I read the Neapolitan novels I find that I never want to stop."--Molly Fischer, The New Yorker "Dazzling...stunning...an extraordinary epic."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Spectacular."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "What words do you save? Here's your chance to bring them out, like the silver for the wedding of the first-born: genius, tour de force, masterpiece. They apply to the work of Elena Ferrante...her magnificent Neapolitan quartet seems to me to be the greatest achievement in fiction of the post-war era."--Charles Finch, The Chicago Tribune "We are dealing with masterpieces here, old-fashioned classics, filled with passion and pathos...The sheer power of her books is a challenge to the chilly, dour craftsmanship of too many 21st century literary novels."--Joe Klein, TIME Magazine "The saga is both comfortingly traditional and radically fresh, it gives readers not just what they want, but something more than they didn't know they craved...through this fusion of high and low art, Ms. Ferrante emerges as a 21st-century Dickens."--The Economist "Ferrante's accomplishment in these novels is to extract an enduring masterpiece from dissolving margins, from the commingling of self and other, creator and created, new and old, real and whatever the opposite of real may be...Ferrante's voice is very much her own, but its force is communal."--Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic "Ferrante adumbrates the mysterious beauty and brutality of personal experience."--Rachel Cusk, The New York Times Book Review, #1 BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY - NEW YORK TIMES "The book expands as propulsively as the early universe, encompassing ideas about art and politics, class and gender, philosophy and fate, all through a dedicated focus on the conflicted, competitive friendship between Elena and Lila...uncompromising, unforgettable."--The New York Times, The #1 Best Book of the 21st Century "A large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman."--James Wood, The New Yorker "One of modern fiction''s richest portraits of a friendship."--John Powers, NPR''s Fresh Air "Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time."--Roxana Robinson, The New York Times Book Review "Compelling, visceral and immediate...The Neapolitan novels are a tour de force."--Jennifer Gilmore, The Los Angeles Times "It took my breath away...so honest and right and opens up heart to so much."--Elizabeth Strout, writer "The Neapolitan novel cycle is an unconditional masterpiece."--Jhumpa Lahiri, writer "Everyone should read anything with Ferrante''s name on it."--Eugenia Williamson, The Boston Globe "Ferrante''s own writing has no limits, is willing to take every thought forward to its most radical conclusion and backwards to its most radical birthing."--The New Yorker "One of the more nuanced portraits of feminine friendship in recent memory."--Megan O''Grady, Vogue "It''s just hypnotic. I could not stop reading it or thinking about it."--Hillary Clinton "Ferrante tackles girlhood and friendship with amazing force."--Gwyneth Paltrow, actor "Ferrante''s writing seems to say something that hasn''t been said before in a way so compelling its readers forget where they are, abandon friends and disdain sleep."--Joanna Biggs, The London Review of Books "Ferrante has written about female identity with a heft and sharpness unmatched by anyone since Doris Lessing."--Elizabeth Lowry, The Wall Street Journal "No one has a voice quite like Ferrante''s. Her gritty, ruthlessly frank novels roar off the page with a barbed fury, like an attack that is also a defense...Imagine if Jane Austen got angry and you''ll have some idea of how explosive these works are."--John Freeman, writer "When I read the Neapolitan novels I find that I never want to stop."--Molly Fischer, The New Yorker "Dazzling...stunning...an extraordinary epic."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Spectacular."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR''s Fresh Air "What words do you save? Here''s your chance to bring them out, like the silver for the wedding of the first-born: genius, tour de force, masterpiece. They apply to the work of Elena Ferrante...her magnificent Neapolitan quartet seems to me to be the greatest achievement in fiction of the post-war era."--Charles Finch, The Chicago Tribune "We are dealing with masterpieces here, old-fashioned classics, filled with passion and pathos...The sheer power of her books is a challenge to the chilly, dour craftsmanship of too many 21st century literary novels."--Joe Klein, TIME Magazine "The saga is both comfortingly traditional and radically fresh, it gives readers not just what they want, but something more than they didn''t know they craved...through this fusion of high and low art, Ms. Ferrante emerges as a 21st-century Dickens."--The Economist "Ferrante''s accomplishment in these novels is to extract an enduring masterpiece from dissolving margins, from the commingling of self and other, creator and created, new and old, real and whatever the opposite of real may be...Ferrante''s voice is very much her own, but its force is communal."--Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic "Ferrante adumbrates the mysterious beauty and brutality of personal experience."--Rachel Cusk, The New York Times Book Review "My Brilliant Friend speaks about female friendship and the mother and daughter relationship in a way no other writer has done before. That is what makes the story globally relevant."--Enrica Ferrara, writer, "Everyone should read anything with [Elena Ferrante's] name on it." -- The Boston Globe "One of the more nuanced portraits of feminine friendship in recent memory." -- Vogue "This gorgeous novel should bring a host of new reader's to one of Italy's most acclaimed authors." -- The Barnes and Noble Review "Ferrante, beautifully translated by Ann Goldstein...writes with a ferocious, intimate urgency." -- The San Francisco Chronicle "Ferrante draws an indelible picture." -- Shelf Awareness "A compelling and moving coming-of-age story" -- Booklist "More than a conventional up-from-poverty tale." -- Publishers Weekly
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Series Volume Number
Bk. 1
Dewey Decimal
853.92
Synopsis
#1 BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY - NEW YORK TIMES 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, Now an HBO series. Book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy's most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times ) Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferrante's four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its protagonists, 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 conflictual friendship. Book one in the series follows Lila and Elena from their first 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 her protagonists. "An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends," writes Entertainment Weekly . "Spectacular," says Maureen Corrigan on NPR 's Fresh Air. "A large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman," writes James Wood in The New Yorker . Ferrante is one of the world's great storytellers. With My Brilliant Friend 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., OVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN ENGLISH WORLDWIDE OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE UK 14 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES GUARDIAN 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY 58 WEEKS ON THE BOOKSELLER'S TOP 20 ORIGINAL FICTION BESTSELLERS LIST SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015 43 INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS DEALS Now in B-format Paperback From one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, comes this ravishing and generous-hearted novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime. The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else, as their friendship, beautifully and meticulously rendered, becomes a not always perfect shelter from hardship. Ferrante has created a memorable portrait of two women, but My Brilliant Friend is also the story of a nation. Through the lives of Elena and Lila, Ferrante gives her readers the story of a city and a country undergoing momentous change. "Nothing quite like it has ever been published." - Guardian "Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world." - The Sunday Times "This is high stakes, subversive literature." - The Telegraph, #1 BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY - NEW YORK TIMES 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
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