Ferrante, Elena
Summary: In this third Neapolitan novel, 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 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FERFerrante, Elena
Summary: The Story of a New Name follows Elena Ferrante's critically acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. These young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times while driving them apart at others. Each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FERFerrante, Elena
Summary: Here is the dazzling saga of two women: the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; many of life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship has remained the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up -- a prison of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FERFerrante, Elena
Summary: The brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila have made life's great discoveries, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up-- a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Now, in a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous-- and in a world undergoing epochal change-- Lila and Elena clash,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Ferrante 2015Ferrante, Elena
Summary: The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood 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 they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016