DeBilde, Marguerite, Maertens, Thierry:Prayers in Community
- First edition 2019, ISBN: 9780819004468
Paperback, Hardcover
Independently published, 2019-11-02. Paperback. Used:Good., Independently published, 2019-11-02, 0, Independently published, 2019-11-02. Paperback. Used: Good., Independently published,… More...
Independently published, 2019-11-02. Paperback. Used:Good., Independently published, 2019-11-02, 0, Independently published, 2019-11-02. Paperback. Used: Good., Independently published, 2019-11-02, 2.5, Oxford: Parker. 419pp followed by 16p publisher's catalogue, hardback, purple cloth gilt, boards rubbed with small cloth tear near fore-edge, extremities of spine rubbed with some loss, minor ink annotation to a few pages, ex-parish library with bookplate, else good . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1887., Parker, 1887, 2.5, Europa Editions. Very Good. 5.29 x 1.4 x 8.25 inches. Paperback. 2015. 480 pages. <br>The stunning conclusion to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two w omen, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable L ila, who first met amid the shambles of postwar Italy. In this bo ok, life's great discoveries have been made; its vagaries and los ses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship re mains the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up. Elena ma rried, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. But now, she has returned to Naples to be w ith the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She has become a succes sful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximit y with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infec t her neighborhood. Yet, somehow, this proximity to a world she h as always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief. Lila is a magnificent character. The Atlantic Everyone should read anything with Ferrante's name on it. The Boston Globe Editorial Reviews An Amazon Best Book of September 2015: Elena Ferrante has been an under-the-radar phenom enon for a couple of years now: the pseudonymous, publicity-shunn ing Italian author of Days of Abandonment - one of my favorite no vels of all time - and the three (until now) Neapolitan Novels is the go-to read for thoughtful, analytical women on at least two continents. But if the first three books made her a cult here, Th e Story of the Lost Child, the final volume of the Neapolitan boo ks, is poised to make her a bona fide star. Such widespread acc eptance and popularity is only fitting, since the characters in t he Neapolitan novels are not fancy women; they're for the most pa rt not particularly educated, rich or sophisticated. What they ar e, always, is full of life and self-doubt and self-consciousness and ambition and love and hate and energy and sexuality. The new book, like the others, centers around the lifelong relationship b etween Elena and Lina - frenemies from long before such a word ex isted. The Story of the Lost Child chronicles what happens when t he women renew their friendship after many years of estrangement; One morning, I woke up and thought of her without hostility for the first time in a long while, as Elena says. Now they are begin ning to face aging together. That's the plot here, and it is es sentially the plot of all of the Neapolitan novels: how do women grow and age, together and apart, how do they relate, how do moth erhood, money and men intervene? But you don't read Ferrante for the plot; you read her for the sheer accumulation of detailed sce nes and conversations, for its comings together and breakings apa rt, and for the way characters disappear and recur until the city in which they live becomes both a vast jungle and the original t oo-close small town. (Bonus: while it's probably best to read all four of these novels in the order in which they were published, you can come to book 4 fresh and get up to speed within pages.) A long the way, you also get a glimpse into the politics of 20th ce ntury Italy and some sly understanding of the publishing world. ( Elena is a published author of some success.) Reading Ferrante is , in other words, both exhausting and exhilarating. The other day , an acquaintance said she loved these books so much she felt lik e standing on a street corner and handing them out to every woman she sees. I know the feeling. - Sara Nelson Review Longlisted f or the 2016 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE Named TIME Magazine's #1 Book in it's 10 Best Fiction Books of 2015 list Named one of the 10 Best Fiction Books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Rev iew Named one of the 10 Best Fiction Books of 2015 by People Mag azine Featured in the Wall Street Journal's list of 15 Books to Read This Fall Included as one of 30 blockbuster novels to look out for this fall by Entertainment Weekly Listed as one of Publi sher Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2015 Included in th e Kirkus list of 21 Must-read Fall books Featured as one of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2015 Praise fo r The Story of the Lost Child Dazzling...stunning...an extraordi nary epic. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times It's spectacu lar, but you will only realize how spectacular The Story of the L ost Child is if you do not cheat. You must read the three earlier (also superb) Neapolitan Novels or the perfect devastation wroug ht by the conclusion of this last novel will be lost on you. --M aureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air It is the exploration of the wome n's mental underworld that makes the book so singular an achievem ent in feminist literature; indeed, in all literature. --Joan Ac ocella, The New Yorker This is Ferrante at the height of her bri lliance. --Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair Ms. Ferrante has in fac t, for more than 20 years, written about female identity with a h eft and sharpness unmatched by anyone since Doris Lessing. --The Wall Street Journal What words do you save? Here's your chance t o bring them out, like the silver for the wedding of the first-bo rn: genius, tour de force, masterpiece. They apply to the work of Elena Ferrante, whose newly translated novel The Story of the Lo st Child is the fourth and final one of her magnificent Neapolita n quartet, a sequence which now seems to me, at least within all that I've read, to be the greatest achievement in fiction of the post-war era. --Charles Finch, The Chicago Tribune We are dealin g with masterpieces here, old-fashioned classics, filled with pas sion and pathos. [...] The sheer power of her books is a challeng e to the chilly, dour craftsmanship of too many 21st century lite rary novels. --Joe Klein, TIME Magazine The saga is both comfor tingly traditional and radically fresh, it gives readers not just what they want, but something more than they didn't know they cr aved...through this fusion of high and low art, Ms. Ferrante emer ges as a 21st-century Dickens. --The Economist Ferrante's accomp lishment in these novels is to extract an enduring masterpiece fr om dissolving margins, from the commingling of self and other, cr eator and created, new and old, real and whatever the opposite of real may be. [...] Ferrante's voice is very much her own, but it 's force is communal. Perhaps her quartet should be seen as one o f the first great works of post-authorial literature. --Judith Sh ulevitz, The Atlantic Ferrante [. . .] adumbrates the mysteriou s beauty and brutality of personal experience. --Rachel Cusk, The New York Times Book Review [. . .] with her new novel, The Stor y of the Lost Child, Ferrante has written what I'd call a city bo ok, a knowing and complex tale that encompasses an entire metropo lis. The breadth of vision makes this final installment feel like the essential volume. --John Domini, The Washington Post This s tunning conclusion further solidifies the Neapolitan novels as Fe rrante's masterpiece. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Ferra nte has created a mythic portrait of a female friendship in the c hthonian world of postwar Naples. --Kirkus Reviews (starred revi ew) Word of mouth launched this series, glowing reviews helped, and, eventually, a publishing phenomenon was born. The series' co nclusion is a genuine literary event. --Booklist (starred review ) Praise for The Neapolitan Novels Ferrante's Naples Quartet is anything but theater. It is the first genuine literary classic o f the 21st century. --The Huffington Post One of modern fiction' s richest portraits of a friendship. --John Powers, Fresh Air, NP R The Neapolitan Novels tell a single story with the possessive force of an origin myth. --Megan O'Grady, Vogue Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time... This is a new versio n of the way we live now - one we need, one told brilliantly, by a woman. --Roana Robinson, The New York Times Book Review A str ong sense of chiaroscuro characterises the tetralogy: the thuggis h violence of the Neapolitan stradone, the political activism of the years of lead, the corruption at every level of society. --Ja ne Shilling The Evening Standard (UK) ., Europa Editions, 2015, 3, Fides, Editions. Used - Good. 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