| ISBN |
9781410491169 (hardcover) |
| 1410491161 (hardcover) |
| Name |
Ferrante, Elena author. |
| Uniform title |
Amica geniale (Novel). English |
| Title |
My brilliant friend : childhood, adolescence / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. |
| Edition |
Large print edition. |
| Published |
Waterville, Maine Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2016] |
| ©2012 |
| Description |
497 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. |
| Notes |
"Childhood, adolescence." |
| "Original title: L'amica geniale"--Title page verso. |
| Translated from the Italian. |
| Summary |
The story of Elena and Lila begins in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. The two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else, sometimes to their own detriment, as each discovers more about who she is and suffers or delights in the throes of their intense friendship. There is a piercing honesty about Ferrante's prose that makes My Brilliant Friend a compulsively readable portrait of two young women, and also the story of a neighbourhood, a city and a country. |
| Subjects |
Best friends -- Fiction |
| Female friendship -- Fiction |
| Naples (Italy) -- Fiction |
| Italy -- Social life and customs -- 1945- Fiction |
| Genre |
Large type books |
| Other Names |
Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator. |
| Added titles |
The Neapolitan novels |
| Series |
Amica geniale. English bk. 1 |
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