The Lying Life of Adults
by Elena Ferrante
translated by Ann Goldstein
Giovanna’s pretty face has changed: it’s turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and to save herself? She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. Adrift, she vacillates between these two cities, falling down into one then climbing back to the other. But neither city seems to offer her any answers or escape.
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Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Europa Editions
Publication Date: 2020
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781787702400
by Elena Ferrante
translated by Ann Goldstein
Giovanna’s pretty face has changed: it’s turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and to save herself? She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. Adrift, she vacillates between these two cities, falling down into one then climbing back to the other. But neither city seems to offer her any answers or escape.
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Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Europa Editions
Publication Date: 2020
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781787702400
by Elena Ferrante
translated by Ann Goldstein
Giovanna’s pretty face has changed: it’s turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and to save herself? She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. Adrift, she vacillates between these two cities, falling down into one then climbing back to the other. But neither city seems to offer her any answers or escape.
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Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Europa Editions
Publication Date: 2020
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781787702400