![]() ![]() The confusion of bodily change provides a murky backdrop for the lucid mental clarity this period of life can bring. Her latest novel, The Lying Li fe of Adults, is set over the protracted years of adolescence, from 12 to 17. Her characters startle themselves with their readiness to betray their friends for the newly discovered opposite sex, but they startle themselves too when they jettison their heavy, often rather insulting male suitors and return to their nimbler companions. She is good, also, on the way that childhood friendships change, becoming infused with desire and longing. E lena Ferrante is so good on the bodily feelings of female adolescence: the sweaty, clotted skin, the sudden bulges as breasts form, the awkwardly exciting transformations. ![]()
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