The Lying Life of Adults

Name: The Lying Life of Adults
Author: Elena FerranteAnn Goldstein (tr.)
ISBN: 9781609455927

Elena FerranteAnn Goldstein (tr.)

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The Lying Life of Adults was a best book of 2020 according to The Washington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, TIME Magazine, NPR, People Magazine, The New York Times Critics, The Guardian, Electric Literature, Financial Times, Times UK, Irish Times, New York Post, Kirkus Reviews, Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue UK, and The Arts Desk. 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 her 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: Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves from one to the other in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or escape.

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