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Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times: Entertainment
Sat, 11/17/2018 - 4:00am

The first of Elena Ferrante's four "Neapolitan" novels, "My Brilliant Friend" has become a television series in eight parts, a co-production between Italian studios and HBO, where it begins airing Sunday. Ferrante — the name is a pseudonym, the author remains remarkably unknown and unheard from,...

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