Annie Ernaux, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-941423-51-9
For this Prix Renaudot-winning author, childhood was not just a time of life but a cottage industry. A trilogy of books intersect at her youth: the story of Ernaux's father, told in La Place ; her semi-autobiographical first novel, Cleaned Out ; and
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Annie Ernaux, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $15 (64p) ISBN 978-1-56858-003-6
Because Ernaux has written about her mother ( A Woman's Story ), her father ( A Man's Place ) and herself ( Cleaned Out ), one can almost hear an anxious tremor in the narrator's (Ernaux's?) lover's voice as he says, ``You won't write a book about...
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Annie Ernaux, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $17 (192p) ISBN 978-1-56858-029-6
``My whole story as a woman: going down a flight of stairs, and hanging back at each step.'' Always a perceptive writer, French author Ernaux has outdone herself in this sharply painful story of a woman's aspirations slowly picked apart by reality....
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Annie Ernaux, Author, Carol Sanders, Translator Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (127p) ISBN 978-0-916583-65-1
``So I got involved, heavily involved, deeply involved, right down to ending up with a tube in my womb, all because of a not-very-clever comment, all because of myself.'' In this first novel, written in 1974, the Prix Renaudot-winning author's...
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Annie Ernaux, Author, Carol Sanders, Translator Dalkey Archive Press $9.94 (0p) ISBN 978-0-916583-70-5
Denise, a 20-year-old college student who has just had a back-alley abortion, lies alone in her dorm room and ponders her rejection of her well-meaning parents. PW called this ``a tough story of a young girl's coming-of-age in postwar France, a...
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Annie Ernaux, Author, Tanya Leslie, Translator , trans. from the French by Tanya Leslie. Seven Stories $18.95 (95p) ISBN 978-1-58322-256-0
French novelist and memoirist Ernaux (Shame; A Frozen Woman; etc.) was 23 in 1963 when she discovered she needed an abortion. After an unsuccessful attempt with a knitting needle, she tracked down a backstreet abortionist in Paris. Her three-month-ol
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Annie Ernaux, Author, Tanya Leslie, Translator Seven Stories Press $16 (95p) ISBN 978-1-888363-31-9
Ernaux's best subject is Ernaux. Her autobiographical novels like Cleaned Out, A Woman's Story, A Man's Place and Simple Passion succeeded brilliantly because Ernaux is mordantly critical of every character--especially her own. As the title suggests,
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Annie Ernaux, Author, Tanya Leslie, Translator Seven Stories Press $16.95 (111p) ISBN 978-1-888363-69-2
Ernaux's last book, Exteriors, was a collection of incisive observations drawn from anonymous, momentary encounters, but now, Ernaux returns to her provincial French childhood, the world of her autobiographical novels Cleaned Out, A Woman's Story...
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Annie Ernaux, Author, Tanya Leslie, Translator Seven Stories Press $18.95 (94p) ISBN 978-1-58322-014-6
Again blurring the line between memoir and fiction, Ernaux continues the story of her family in journal form. This slim volume is a quietly searing account of Ernaux's mother's deteriorating health after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease,...
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Annie Ernaux, Author, Tanya Leslie, Translator Ballantine Books $15 (108p) ISBN 978-0-345-37623-7
This semi-autobiographical novel is a brief, aching requiem for the Prix Renaudot-winning author's mother, a victim of Alzheimer's disease. Ernaux's latest, A Man's Place , will be published in April by Four Walls Eight Windows. (May)
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Annie Ernaux, Author, Tanya Leslie, Translator Four Walls Eight Windows $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-941423-75-5
``May I venture an explanation: writing is the ultimate recourse for those who have betrayed,'' says Jean Genet in the epigraph to Ernaux's ``autobiographical narrative'' about her relationship with her father. The betrayer is Ernaux herself, a...
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Annie Ernaux, trans. from the French by Alison L. Strayer. Seven Stories, $13.99 trade paper (64p) ISBN 978-1-64421-320-9
Nobel Prize winner Ernaux (The Years) recounts her yearlong affair with a man three decades her junior in this slim yet stunning memoir. After the man, a student referred to here only as “A,” made several attempts to contact Ernaux about her work,...
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Annie Ernaux, trans. from the French by Alison L. Strayer. Seven Stories, $18.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-64421-219-6
In this entrancing work, French writer Ernaux (The Years) relives the passionate yet devastating memories of a whirlwind affair through her own diary entries. From November 1989 to April 1990, when she was a writer and teacher living in Paris,...
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Annie Ernaux, trans. from the French by Christopher Beach and Carrie Noland. Univ. of Nebraska, $17.95 trade paper (134p) ISBN 978-1-4962-2800-0
In this unsettling novel from Ernaux (The Years), first published in France in 1977, a teenage girl has her first sexual experience on summer break. Anne, introverted and contemplative at 15, harbors a cool contempt for her working-class parents,...
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