Those who leave and those who stay : middle time / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: Farmington Hills, Mich : Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cenage Learning, 2016Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Large print editionDescription: 637 pages (large print) ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781594139956; 1594139954Other title: Middle timeUniform titles: Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta. English Subject(s): 1900-1999 | Female friendship -- Fiction | Single mothers -- Fiction | Women novelists -- Fiction | Social classes -- Fiction | Amitié féminine -- Romans, nouvelles, etc | Mères de famille monoparentale -- Romans, nouvelles, etc | Romancières -- Romans, nouvelles, etc | Classes sociales -- Romans, nouvelles, etc | Female friendship | Single mothers | Social classes | Women novelists | Naples (Italy) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Naples (Italie) -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Romans, nouvelles, etc | Italy -- NaplesGenre/Form: Large type books. | Domestic fiction. | Fiction. | Historical fiction. | History. | Historical fiction. | Historical fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Large type books. Summary: Friends Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and has published a successful novel. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. Afloat on the sea of opportunities that opened up during the 1970s, they are still very much connected to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | FERR 3 (Browse shelf) | Available | 63945 |
"Original title: Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta"--Title page verso.
Friends Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and has published a successful novel. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. Afloat on the sea of opportunities that opened up during the 1970s, they are still very much connected to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.
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