About the Author:
Elena Ferrante was born in Naples, Italy. She is the author of "My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, "and her previous novels"The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, "and" The Lost Daughter."
Review:
"Reading Ferrante reminded me of that child-like excitement when you can't look up from the page, when your eyes seem to be popping from your head, when you think: I didn't know books could do this!"--Elizabeth Strout, author of "Olive Kitteridge"
"[Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels] don't merely offer a teeming vision of working-class Naples, with its cobblers and professors, communists and mobbed-up businessmen, womanizing poets and downtrodden wives; they present one of modern fiction's richest portraits of a friendship."--John Powers, Fresh Air, "NPR"
"Elena Ferrante's THE STORY OF A NEW NAME, book two in her Naples series. Two words. Read it."--Ann Hood, author of "The Obituary Writer"
"No one has a voice quite like Ferrante's. Her gritty, ruthlessly frank novels roar off the page with a barbed fury, like an attack that is also a defense...Imagine if Jane Austen got angry and you'll have some idea of how explosive these works are."--John Freeman
"Ferrante's freshness has nothing to do with fashion...it is imbued with the most haunting music of all, the echoes of literary history."--"The New York Times Book Review"
Praise for Elena Ferrante and "The Neapolitan Novels"
"Everyone should read anything with Ferrante's name on it." --The Boston Globe
"Ferrante's novels are intensely, violently personal, and because of this they seem to dangle bristling key chains of confession before the unsuspecting reader." --James Wood, "The New Yorker"
"One of the more nuanced portraits of feminine friendship in recent memory." --Megan O'Grady, "Vogue"
"Amazing! "My Brilliant Friend" took my breath away. If I were president of the world I would make everyone read this book. It is so honest and right and opens up heart to so much. Reading Ferrante reminded me of that child-like excitement when you can't look up from the page, when your eyes seem to be popping from your head, when you think: I didn't know books could do this!" --Elizabeth Strout, author of "Olive Kitteridge"
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away." --Alice Sebold, author of "The Lovely Bones"
"Ferrante's emotional and carnal candor are so potent." --Janet Maslin, "The New York Times"
"I like the Italian writer, Elena Ferrante, a lot. I've been reading all her work and all about her." -- John Waters, actor and director
""Elena Ferrante tackles girlhood and friendship with amazing force."-- Gwenyth Paltrow
"Elena Ferrante may be the best contemporary novelist you've never heard of"-- "The Economist"
"[Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels] don't merely offer a teeming vision of working-class Naples, with its cobblers and professors, communists and mobbed-up businessmen, womanizing poets and downtrodden wives; they present one of modern fiction's richest portraits of a friendship." --John Powers, Fresh Air, "NPR"
"Ferrante's freshness has nothing to do with fashion...it is imbued with the most haunting music of all, the echoes of literary history." --"The New York Times Book Review"
"Elena Ferrante's THE STORY OF A NEW NAME, book two in
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