A Girl's Story WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux (Eng

Description: A Girl's Story WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux, Alison Strayer I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have never managed to do so. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In A Girls Story, her latest book, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, spent working as a holiday camp instructor in Normandy, and recounts the first night she spent with a man. When he moves on, she realizes she has submitted her will to his and finds that she is a slave without a master. Now, sixty years later, she finds she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider this young woman whom she wanted to forget completely. In writing A Girls Story, which brings to life her indelible memories of that summer, Ernaux discovers that here was the vital, violent and dolorous origin of her writing life, built out of shame, violence and betrayal.Another deeply felt, fearlessly honest exploration of female desire, shame, and intellectual passion from the incomparable Annie Ernaux. - Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend Author Biography Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National dEnseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Mans Place and A Womans Story, have become contemporary classics in France. The Years won the Prix Renaudot in France in 2008, the Premio Strega in Italy in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. In 2017, Annie Ernaux was awarded the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her lifes work. Review Ernaux is an unusual memoirist: she distrusts her memory... Ernaux does not so much reveal the pastshe does not pretend to have any authoritative access to itas unpack it. Madeleine Schwartz, New YorkerA profound and beautiful examination of the impenetrable wall that time erects between the self we are, and the selves we once were. I know of no other book that so vividly illustrates the frustrations and the temptations of that barrier, and our heartache and longing in trying to breach it. Annie Ernaux is one of my favorite contemporary writers, original and true. Always after reading one of her books, I walk around in her world for months. Sheila Heti, author of MotherhoodAnnie Ernaux writes memoir with such generosity and vulnerable power that I find it difficult to separate my own memories from hers long after Ive finished reading. In A Girls Story she detangles an adolescence rife with desire and shame, an era of both internal and external debasement. Ernaux wisely ventures into the gray areas of her memories; she doesnt attempt to transcend their power, nor to even "understand" them, but to press them firmly into this diamond of a book. -- Catherine Lacey, author of Pew Long Description I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have never managed to do so. In A Girls Story , her latest book, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, spent working as a holiday camp instructor in Normandy, and recounts the first night she spent with a man. When he moves on, she realizes she has submitted her will to his and finds that she is a slave without a master. Now, sixty years later, she finds she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider this young woman whom she wanted to forget completely. In writing A Girls Story , which brings to life her indelible memories of that summer, Ernaux discovers that here was the vital, violent and dolorous origin of her writing life, built out of shame, violence and betrayal. Another deeply felt, fearlessly honest exploration of female desire, shame, and intellectual passion from the incomparable Annie Ernaux. - Sigrid Nunez, author of T he Friend Review Text "Ernaux is an unusual memoirist: she distrusts her memory... Ernaux does not so much reveal the past?she does not pretend to have any authoritative access to it?as unpack it.? Madeleine Schwartz, New Yorker A profound and beautiful examination of the impenetrable wall that time erects between the self we are, and the selves we once were. I know of no other book that so vividly illustrates the frustrations and the temptations of that barrier, and our heartache and longing in trying to breach it. Annie Ernaux is one of my favorite contemporary writers, original and true. Always after reading one of her books, I walk around in her world for months.? Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood Annie Ernaux writes memoir with such generosity and vulnerable power that I find it difficult to separate my own memories from hers long after Ive finished reading. In A Girls Story she detangles an adolescence rife with desire and shame, an era of both internal and external debasement. Ernaux wisely ventures into the gray areas of her memories; she doesnt attempt to transcend their power, nor to even ""understand"" them, but to press them firmly into this diamond of a book. --? Catherine Lacey, author of Pew" Details ISBN1913097153 Author Alison Strayer Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions Year 2020 ISBN-10 1913097153 ISBN-13 9781913097158 Publication Date 2020-04-07 Pages 152 UK Release Date 2020-04-07 Format Paperback Imprint Fitzcarraldo Editions Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from French AU Release Date 2020-04-07 Language English Translator Alison Strayer Alternative 9781913097165 DEWEY 843.914 Audience General NZ Release Date 2020-04-06 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:138222759;

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