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A Girl's Story
  • Published: 2 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9781609809515
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $39.99

A Girl's Story

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7 Apr 2020
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2 July 2020
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Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted author of The Years.

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize–shortlisted author of The Years.
 
In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the season 50 years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another’s will and desire. In the summer of 1958, 18-year-old Ernaux submits her will to a man’s, and then he moves on, leaving her without a “master,” bereft.

Now, 50 years later, she realizes she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider this young woman that she wanted to forget completely. And to discover that here, submerged in shame, humiliation, and betrayal, but also in self-discovery and self-reliance, lies the origin of her writing life.
  • Published: 2 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9781609809515
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the authors

Annie Ernaux

Born in 1940, ANNIE ERNAUX grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and began teaching high school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man’s Place and A Woman’s Story, have become contemporary classics in France. She won the prestigious Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place when it was first published in French in 1984. The English edition was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The English edition of A Woman’s Story was a New York Times Notable Book.
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Praise for A Girl's Story

For The Years:
"The Years is an earnest, fearless book, a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism, for our period of absolute commodity fetishism." -Edmund White, New York Times Book Review
"The process of reading The Years is similar to a treasure box discovery. ...It is the kind of book you close after reading a few pages, carried away by the bittersweet taste it leaves in your mind. ...Ernaux transforms her life into history and her memories into the collective memory of a generation." -Los Angeles Review of Books
"The author of one of the most important oeuvres in French literature, Annie Ernaux's work is as powerful as it is devastating, as subtle as it is seething."-- Edouard Louis, author of The End of Eddy

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