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The Story of the Lost Child: Book Four of the Neapolitan Novels: Maturity, Old Age by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Against the backdrop of a seductive and perilous Naples, Elena Ferrante delivers a searingly honest chronicle of a lifelong female friendship. Translated by Ann Goldstein. The fourth and final book of the internationally renowned Neapolitan novels.The fourth volume in the dazzling saga of a friendship between two women: brilliant, bookish Elena and fiery, uncontainable Lila. Having moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books, Elena returns to her home city to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never freed herself from Naples. And her entrepreneurial success only draws her into closer contact with the nepotism, criminal violence and inviolable taboos that infect her neighbourhood."Old romances; the tiny slights of a domineering mother; the status anxieties of growing up parochial: Ferrante has written a book that feels as rich and layered as life itself." - John Freeman, The Boston Globe"Ferrante has moved into more overtly psychological territory. A portrait of the dynamic of a friendship has mutated into a weightier, more uncanny exploration of the antipathy of love, of our compulsion to create one another, over and

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Author
Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein
Publisher
Europa Editions, Incorporated
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9781787700581
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

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