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    The Lying Life of Adults

    By Elena Ferrante

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    About this ebook

    KEY SELLING POINTS

    • The first new work of fiction in over five years by Elena Ferrante, mega best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend/Neapolitan Novels/Neapolitan Quartet (17 millions copies sold worldwide, 3.7 millions copies sold in North America)
    • Screen adaptation rights sold to Netflix.
    • Audiobooks rights sold to PRHA - celebrity narrator Marisa Tomei announced in August
    • Major film in production: Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter starring Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal in production, planned 2021 release
    • Previous titles New York Times and ABA National Indie Bestsellers and Long-sellers (Over 50 weeks on bestseller lists, including #1 ABA National Indie, #1 Amazon Bestseller, #2 New York Times, #20 Combined Print and Ebook New York Times, USA Today, PW combined)
    • Week of 4/19/2020: My Brilliant Friend (2012) is an ABA National Indie Bestseller at #26, 8 years after publication
    • Translated by Ann Goldstein, translator of previous books and “a rare celebrity among translators.” (Wall Street Journal)
    • Author was a TIME Magazine 2016 Most Influential Person of the Year
    • Major HBO series, My Brilliant Friend, season 2 March-6 May 2020, season 3 t.k. 2021

    TARGET CONSUMER

    • Readers of literary fiction, general fiction, upmarket women’s fiction, international literature, book club fiction Ferrante readers are politically and culturally engaged, college educated, frequent mainstream media consumers (NPR/WaPo/NYT etc); readerships skews to women between 25-65
    • Readers of Elizabeth Strout, Zadie Smith, Kate Atkinson, Margaret Atwood, Karl Ove Knausgaard
    • Purchase physical, electronic and audio books primarily from brick & mortar indie bookstores, B&N, Hudson, and online retailers like Amazon, Bookshop, BN.com
    • Readership clusters around Engaged Enthusiasts, Buzz Followers, and Super Fans.
    • Key markets: New York City, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago and Philadelphia

    Editor's Note

    Powerful coming-of-age story…

    The wait is over! “My Brilliant Friend” author Elena Ferrante is back with “a powerful coming-of-age story like no other,” according to Bookpage’s Lauren Bufferd, who says “The Lying Life of Adults” “simmers with overt rage toward parental deception, teachers’ expectations and society’s impossible ideals of beauty and behavior.” Netflix is already adapting the book into a series, so read it here before it hits your screen.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEuropa Editions
    Release dateSep 1, 2020
    ISBN9781609455927
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    The Lying Life of Adults
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    Elena Ferrante

    Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), and The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), now a film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, and Jessie Buckley. She is also the author of Incidental Inventions(Europa, 2019), illustrated by Andrea Ucini; Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey (Europa, 2016); and a children’s picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016). The four volumes known as the “Neapolitan novels” (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) were published by Europa Editions in English between 2012 and 2015. My Brilliant Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 2018 and is in its third season. Ferrante’s most recent novel is the instant New York Times bestseller, The Lying Life of Adults (Europa, 2020).

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      In comparison with other novels of her, particularly the Neapolitan Novels, this one seemed to me not that appealing.