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cbr12bingo – Fresh Start

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

August 17, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

I have a confession to make: I judged this book by its cover. I remember the frenzy of press around this book, the series, and the *mysterious* author. I also remember seeing the cover and being completely uninterested. It is, in my opinion, a dreadful cover. It looks like it was cobbled together to act as a prop. It looks like a poorly thought out passion project. I still think the cover is awful, but I am glad that I changed my mind around shunning […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Ann Goldstein, bildungsroman, cbr12bingo, coming-of-age, Elena Ferrante, Fresh Start, friendship, inter generational trauma, Italian language, italian literature, Naples, postwar Europe, postwar Italy, translated, youth

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:91 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Ann Goldstein, bildungsroman, cbr12bingo, coming-of-age, Elena Ferrante, Fresh Start, friendship, inter generational trauma, Italian language, italian literature, Naples, postwar Europe, postwar Italy, translated, youth ·
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