{"product_id":"legendary-tomes-9781609450786","title":"My Brilliant Friend","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow an HBO series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy’s most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its protagonists, the fiery and unforgettable Lila, and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflictual friendship. Book one in the series follows Lila and Elena from their first fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her protagonists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends,” writes Entertainment Weekly. “Spectacular,” says Maureen Corrigan on NPR’s Fresh Air. “A large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman,” writes James Wood in The New Yorker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFerrante is one of the world’s great storytellers. With My Brilliant Friend she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Elena Ferrante\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Europa Editions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication year:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2012\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781609450786\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable conditions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very Good, Good\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Legendary Tomes","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47931269775538,"sku":"BR-1609450787-8-1","price":10.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47931269808306,"sku":"BR-1609450787-11-1","price":10.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/5855\/4802\/files\/booksrun-9781609450786-cover.jpg?v=1787376559","url":"https:\/\/legendarytomesbooks.com\/products\/legendary-tomes-9781609450786","provider":"Legendary Tomes","version":"1.0","type":"link"}