"What a relief it is when an author who has written a masterpiece returns to prove the gift intact."--The New York Times Book Review "Reads like a distillation of adolescence itself."--Vogue "Suspenseful and propulsive.Explores some of the writer's touchiest preoccupations."--The New York Times "Ferrante once again, with undiminished skill and audacity, creates an emotional force field that has at its heart a young girl on the brink of womanhood."--Wall Street Journal "Giovanna's fate, containing elements both expected and unexpected, makes her one of this year's most memorable heroines."--The Boston Globe "Will leave the reader as shaken and invigorated as it does its young protagonist."--Minneapolis Star Tribune "This is classic Ferrante, better than ever [.
] Great stuff."--The Toronto Star "The Lying Life of Adults affirms that Ferrante is an oracle among authors, writing literary epics as illuminating as origin myths, explaining us to ourselves."--O, The Oprah Magazine "A marvelously disconcerting novel of disillusionment."--The Atlantic "A glorious story about the liminal space between childhood and adulthood.A study of the meaning of refinement, beauty and what truth even means."--Good Housekeeping "This transportive new book is a must read."--Condé Nast Traveler "A bracing reminder of the complexity of class and of the variegated ways in which human beings process what they lack and decide to fill that void."--The Nation "At times hilarious and gut-wrenching, Ferrante's novel breaks down society's impossible ideals of beauty and behavior.
"--Today.com "A clear-eyed, evocative reminder that the terrain of adulthood is as fraught as the darkest corners of Naples."--Seattle Book Review "As slinky and scowling as a Neapolitan cat."--Annalisa Quinn, NPR "Ferrante returns to the splendid squalor of Naples in this cutting and cunning bildungsroman."--O, The Oprah Magazine "[Ferrante's]characters have wide-spanned souls and so does Naples, exuding the smells of the sea and gasoline and baking crust."--Los Angeles Times.