Neapolitan Novels: The Story of a New Name (Series #2) (Hardcover)

from streamsong

This is part two of a four part series about childhood friends Lila and Elena. As they have come of age, they have been become more and more competitive and have also been divided by their differing roles in life, and their love for the same man. Lila has chosen marriage to a well-to-do neighborh...

from Widsith

I tore through this in a kind of furious curiosity, annoyed with myself for being so involved and annoyed with Ferrante for taking so long to do what she does. The plot, heavy on frustrated emotion, is drawn out with intense internal monologues and telenovela miscommunications - and yet the actua...

from RandyMetcalfe

Picking up almost immediately from where the first novel of Ferrante's Neapolitan trilogy concluded, The Story of a New Name traces the lives of Elena and her friend Lila from ages 16 to 23. Superficially they are on utterly disparate trajectories. Lila, married at 16, undergoes humiliation after...

from lauralkeet

I enjoyed the first Neapolitan Novel, My Brilliant Friend, and after reading The Story of a New Name I am completely hooked. At the center of the Neapolitan Novels are Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo, two women growing up in Naples in the 1960s. My Brilliant Friend begins with primary school and end...

from lit_chick

2015, Blackstone Audiobooks, Read by Hillary Huber The Story of a New Name begins immediately where My Brilliant Friend left off, following friends Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo (now Lila Carracci) from their mid-teens through their mid-twenties. As the novel opens, Lila, at sixteen, is away on ho...