"Everyone should read everything with Elena Ferrante's name on it."--The Boston Globe
"Ferrante is an oracle among authors, writing literary epics as illuminating as origin myths, explaining us to ourselves."--Claire Luchette, O, The Oprah Magazine
Four essays on writing and reading by the internationally bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults.
Review :
Praise for The Lying Life of Adults
"What a relief it is when an author who has written a masterpiece returns to prove the gift intact."--Dayna Tortorici, The New York Times Book Review
"Suspenseful and propulsive."--Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
"Ms. Ferrante once again, with undiminished skill and audacity, creates an emotional force field that has at its heart a young girl on the brink of womanhood."--Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal
"Unbearably beautiful."--Sarah Chihaya, Los Angeles Review of Books
"Ferrante has a gift, perhaps even a genius, for making great literature out of melodrama."--Judith Thurman, The New Yorker
"Slinky and scowling as a Neapolitan cat."--Annalisa Quinn, NPR
"One of this year's most memorable heroines."--Bethanne Patrick, The Boston Globe
"Exquisitely moody."--Merve Emre, The Atlantic
"A distillation of adolescence itself."--Lauren Mechling, Vogue
"Ferrante is still Ferrante--her characters have wide-spanned souls and so does Naples, exuding the smells of the sea and gasoline and baking crust."--Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times
"Timeless."--Belinda Luscombe, TIME Magazine
"[Ferrante is] a writer whose work transcends genre."--Lewis Beale, The Daily Beast
Praise for Elena Ferrante and The Neapolitan Novels
"Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time. Her voice is passionate, her view sweeping and her gaze basilisk . . . In these bold, gorgeous, relentless novels, Ferrante traces the deep connections between the political and the domestic. This is a new version of the way we live now--one we need, one told brilliantly, by a woman."--Roxana Robinson, The New York Times Book Review
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."--Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones
"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
"My Brilliant Friend took my breath away." --Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge
"One of modern fiction's richest portraits of a friendship."--John Powers, NPR
"Compelling, visceral and immediate . . . a riveting examination of power . . . The Neapolitan novels are a tour de force."--Jennifer Gilmore, The Los Angeles Times
"An unconditional masterpiece."--Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer-prize winning author of Whereabouts
"An engrossing, wildly original contemporary epic about the demonic power of human (and particularly female) creativity checked by the forces of history and society."--The Los Angeles Review of Books
"Ferrante's own writing has no limits, is willing to take every thought forward to its most radical conclusion and backwards to its most radical birthing."--The New Yorker
