Description
A sharp, unsettling portrait of adulthood unfolds as a narrator confronts the stories people tell themselves—and the lies they live by—to keep moving through love, work, and selfhood. With a keen psychological edge, the book traces how identity is shaped by performance, denial, and the quiet bargains we make with our past. Ferrante’s distinctive style—intimate, urgent, and unsparing—turns everyday moments into a study of moral compromise and emotional survival. At its core, this is a novel about the cost of pretending, and what it takes to face the truth when the life you’ve built depends on fiction.
Available Editions
hardcover
Europa Editions
Published Sep 1, 2020
324 pages
ISBN: 9781609455910
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Details
First Published
2019
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante.