![]() ![]() The books have touched the life of millions of readers around the world and have been adapted into many films and miniseries. ![]() My Brilliant Friend traces their story through adolescence, as Elena and Lila begin to find their place in the world and the often misogynist culture of the city. What she looks like, what her real name is, when she was born, how she currently lives-these things are all unknown." The Neapolitan novels tell the story of two lifelong women friends, beginning with their childhood in Naples, Italy, in the 1950s. It's assumed that Elena Ferrante is not the author's real name. Compared with Ferrante, Thomas Pynchon is a publicity profligate. She is the author of several remarkable, lucid, austerely honest novels. In the 21 January 2013 issue of the New Yorker magazine ("Women on the Verge") James Wood wrote, "Elena Ferrante, or 'Elena Ferrante,' is one of Italy's best-known least-known contemporary writers. ![]() Next to Richard FariƱa, who died on the way home from his first book signing in 1966, signed Ferrante first editions may be the scarcest autographed modern first editions. She has signed no other limited editions, nor has she ever done a book signing. ![]() Essentially, this edition offers the only obtainable signed books anywhere in the world by Ferrante. The first book in Elena Ferrante's worldwide bestselling series, the Neapolitan Quartet, published here in a stunningly beautiful signed, limited edition of 126 copies, comprising the entire first hardcover edition in English. ![]()
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