The Story of the Lost Child
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Compact discs.
Read by Hillary Huber.
Here is the dazzling saga of two women: the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; many of life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship has remained the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up -- a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received novels. In this final book, she has returned to Naples. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from the city of her birth. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity to the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Nearness to the world she has always rejected only brings her role as its unacknowledged leader into relief. For Lila is unstoppable, unmanageable, and unforgettable. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous, the story of a lifelong friendship is told with unmatched honesty and brilliance.
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SERIES
Neapolitan novels
4.
PUBLISHED
Ashland, OR : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: 15 audio discs (1110 minutes) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781504630108
1504630106
9781504630122
1504630122
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Huber, Hillary,
Goldstein, Ann, 1949-
SUBJECTS
Friendship -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Naples (Italy) -- Fiction.
Italy -- Social life and customs -- 1945- -- Fiction.