The Lying Life of Adults: A Novel
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 new novel about the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, Ferrante proves once again that she deserves her many accolades.
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The Lying Life of Adults takes a narrow, bleak road through Giovanna’s adolescence. Ferrante tells the story with disarming realism and relatability but also runs through the story with a current of unbelievable caricatures, most prominently Vittoria. Much more exploration of the relationship between Vittoria and Giovanna’s father, Andrea, could have helped make the adults’ actions and opinions more believable but Vittoria is unrelentingly portra...read more
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