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Author:

Ferrante, Elena

Title:

The lying life of adults Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

Publisher:

Thorndike Pressa part of Gale, a Cengage Company,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

497 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Teenage Girls--Fiction
Identity (Psychology)--Fiction
Parent And Child--Fiction
Family Secrets--Fiction
Social Classes--Fiction--Naples--Fiction
Naples (Italy)--Fiction
Italy--Naples
Large type books
Bildungsromans
Domestic fiction
Fiction

Summary:

"Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves from one to the other in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or escape"--

ISBN:

1432880543
9781432880545

Locations:

JBPC145 -- Coon Rapids Public Library (Coon Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)

FDPC194 -- Upham Memorial Library (Fredericksburg)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

EZPE755 -- Le Mars Public Library (Le Mars)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center)

WSPF215 -- Spencer Public Library (Spencer)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

SMPE094 -- Waverly Public Library (Waverly)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)