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Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
62 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Young Man is Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time-- together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching. [Her memoir] recalls Ernaux...
2) Happening
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
95 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she...
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