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"""Everyone should read everything with Elena Ferrante's name on it.""--The Boston Globe ""Ferrante is an oracle among authors, writing literary epics as illuminating as origin myths, explaining us to ourselves.""--Claire Luchette, O, The Oprah Magazine Four essays on writing and reading by the internationally bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults."

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Praise for The Lying Life of Adults What a relief it is when an author who has written a masterpiece returns to prove the gift intact. --Dayna Tortorici, The New York Times Book Review Suspenseful and propulsive. --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Ms. Ferrante once again, with undiminished skill and audacity, creates an emotional force field that has at its heart a young girl on the brink of womanhood. --Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal Unbearably beautiful. --Sarah Chihaya, Los Angeles Review of Books Ferrante has a gift, perhaps even a genius, for making great literature out of melodrama. --Judith Thurman, The New Yorker Slinky and scowling as a Neapolitan cat. --Annalisa Quinn, NPR One of this year's most memorable heroines. --Bethanne Patrick, The Boston Globe Exquisitely moody. --Merve Emre, The Atlantic A distillation of adolescence itself. --Lauren Mechling, Vogue Ferrante is still Ferrante--her characters have wide-spanned souls and so does Naples, exuding the smells of the sea and gasoline and baking crust. --Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times Timeless. --Belinda Luscombe, TIME Magazine [Ferrante is] a writer whose work transcends genre. --Lewis Beale, The Daily Beast Praise for Elena Ferrante and The Neapolitan Novels Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time. Her voice is passionate, her view sweeping and her gaze basilisk . . . In these bold, gorgeous, relentless novels, Ferrante traces the deep connections between the political and the domestic. This is a new version of the way we live now--one we need, one told brilliantly, by a woman. --Roxana Robinson, The New York Times Book Review Elena Ferrante will blow you away. --Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones 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 My Brilliant Friend took my breath away. --Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge One of modern fiction's richest portraits of a friendship. --John Powers, NPR Compelling, visceral and immediate . . . a riveting examination of power . . . The Neapolitan novels are a tour de force. --Jennifer Gilmore, The Los Angeles Times An unconditional masterpiece. --Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer-prize winning author of Whereabouts 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 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

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Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), and The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), now a film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, and Paul Mescal. She is also the author of Incidental Inventions (Europa, 2019), illustrated by Andrea Ucini, Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey (Europa, 2016) 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 Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) were published by Europa Editions in English between 2012 and 2015. My Brilliant Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 2018. Ferrante's most recent novel, the New York Times bestselling The Lying Life of Adults, was published in 2020 by Europa Editions.

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