The Story Of A New Name (My Brilliant Friend #2)

Author: Elena Ferrante

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  • : $37.00 NZD
  • : 9781922147684
  • : Text Publishing Company
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  • : 0.579
  • : May 2013
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : Australia
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  • : Elena Ferrante
  • : My Brilliant Friend
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  • : English
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Description

The Story of a New Name is an extraordinary novel about two young women, Lila and Elena, growing up in Naples in the early 1960s. At sixteen Lila marries the shopkeeper Stefano. She is filled with pleasure at her new wealth, and horror at the life she has chosen. Elena's own attempts at romance seem to be sabotaged by Lila's turbulent affairs. As she tries to plot her way out of poverty via academic and literary success, her constant anxiety is that she is just a shadow of the brilliant Lila. The sequel to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name continues the enthralling chronicle of a friendship that is obsessive, loving, complicated, hurtful, enduring and constantly startling. It is an exhilarating reading experience.

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* Widely reviewed across all major newspapers in Australia and New Zealand including the Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Courier Mail, NZ Herald and Dominion Post * Widely reviewed in literary publications such as Kill Your Darlings and The Lifted Brow * Widely reviewed in general publications such as NZ Listener, The Big Issue and The Monthly * Widely reviewed in women's magazines such as Marie Claire, Vogue and Madison * Reading copies available to the trade * Advertisements in publications such as ABR and the Monthly, and on their associated websites * Promotions and giveaways with targeted subscriber groups, including booklovers such as the CAE and Good Reading * Advertisements in bookseller newsletters and catalogues * Banner advertising on bookseller websites

Reviews

'Ferrante's writing has no limits, is willing to take every thought forward to its most radical conclusion and backward to its most radical birthing.' -- James Wood New Yorker 'Elena Ferrante will blow you away.' -- Alice Sebold 'Everyone should read anything with [Elena Ferrante's] name on it.' Boston Globe 'Beautifully translated by Ann Goldstein...[Ferrante] writes with a ferocious, intimate urgency.' San Francisco Chronicle on My Brilliant Friend 'Cinematic in the density of its detail.' Times Literary Supplement on My Brilliant Friend 'Ferrante transforms the love, separation and reunion of two poor urban girls into the general tragedy of their city, a place so beautiful and heartbreaking that it inspired the expression "Vedi Napoli e poi muori" - "See Naples and then die".' New York Times Book Review 'Elena Ferrante may be the best contemporary novelist you have never heard of...Ferrante's voice is startlingly honest...her storytelling both visceral and compelling.' Economist 'The writing and translation from Italian are first-class.' Otago Daily Times

Author description

Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. She is the author of four other novels: The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter and My Brilliant Friend. She is one of Italy's most acclaimed authors. Ann Goldstein has translated Elena Ferrante's earlier novels. She is an editor at the New Yorker and a recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award.