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Those who leave and those who stay / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Ferrante, Elena. Neapolitan novels ; 3.Publication details: New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2014.Description: 418 pages ; 21 cm. pbkContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 160945233X (pbk.)
  • 9781609452339 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC FER
Summary: 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 of 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 have attempted are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seem them living a life of mystery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to see each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.
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Fiction pbk Shelburne Public Library Fiction FIC FER Available 41572580
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Translation of: Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta.

"Middle time"--Title page.

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 of 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 have attempted are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seem them living a life of mystery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to see each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.

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