Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

eBook - 2014

Soon to be an HBO series, book three in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)In the third book in the Neapolitan quartet, 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 doors to... a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of...

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Published
Europa
Language
English
Main Authors
Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein
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Format
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB079MHDBZ2
Release Date9/2/2014
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781609452230
Release Date9/2/2014