The Lying Life of Adults - Elena Ferrante
I read and really liked Ferrante’s quartet of Neapolitan Novels, have recommended them to many friends, and looked forward to The Lying Life of Adults.
In this well written (or should I say translated?) novel, Ferrante captures once again the many feelings of adolescence…the insecurities, the sometimes brutishness, the conflicted emotions trying to understand the world, especially the world of one’s parents when it is discovered they have feet of clay.
Unfortunately, though, I just wasn’t fond of this work and found myself reading to get through it rather than because I enjoyed it.
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