The Lying Life of Adults - Elena Ferrante - 2020
By: Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein - translator
Narrated by: Marisa Tomei
Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 09-01-20
Language: English
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Random House Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 mono
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A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.
“There’s no doubt [the publication of The Lying Life of Adults] will be the literary event of the year.” (Elle)
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 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: a Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and a Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves between both in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or escape.
Named one of 2016’s most influential people by Time Magazine and frequently touted as a future Nobel Prize winner, Elena Ferrante has become one of the world’s most read and beloved writers. With this novel about the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, Ferrante proves once again that she deserves her many accolades.
In The Lying Life of Adults, listeners will discover another gripping, highly addictive, and totally unforgettable Neapolitan story.
A Most Anticipated Book of 2020
• The New York Times Book Review
• Vogue
• Entertainment Weekly
• Elle Magazine
• BuzzFeed
• The Millions
• The Seattle Times
• USA Today
• Town & Country
• Thrillist
• Publishers Weekly
• Library Journal
• Harper’s Bazaar
• BookPage
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Editor's Pick
Ferrante Fever
When I think about the experience of reading Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, it’s almost as if I’m recalling a past life, with Lenù and Lila, Nino and Enzo, the streets of Naples writhing with life and violence, beauty and spite. In the years since the final book in that series, I, too, have joined the Cult of Ferrante, making the arrival of her new novel, The Lying Life of Adults, akin to a religious experience. The story opens in the 1990s, when twelve-year-old Giovanna Trada overhears her father, in a fit of anger, compare her to her estranged Aunt Vittoria, a revolting and mysterious woman she’s never met. Giovanna sets out to find this aunt of hers, believing it’s the only way to know what her father meant. It’s through Vittoria that Giovanna is able to see who her parents really are, and this clarity undoes and, ultimately, remakes her over the next few years of her adolescent life. Translated to English by the great Ann Goldstein and performed by Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei, Lying Life—like the Neapolitan novels—seems to ask: If we’re destined to become our parents, how far can we stray before our fate is sealed? —Andrew E., Audible Editor
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