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A Simple Passion

Annie Ernaux Tanya Leslie

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French
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
05 August 2003
A New York Times Notable Book and France's #1 best-seller for eight months - with more than 400,000 copies sold - A Simple Passion documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. As the narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner, where every word, event and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to cold indifference, she seeks the truth behind an existence lived for someone else, and in its aftermath, she finds it.
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Imprint:   Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 209mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 6mm
Weight:   122g
ISBN:   9781583225745
ISBN 10:   1583225749
Pages:   72
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Annie Ernaux was born in 1940 in Normandy, France. She is the recipient of numerous prizes including the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place, which was also a finalist for the French-American Translation Prize. A Woman's Story was a Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize finalist. A Man's Place and A Woman's Story were both New York Times Notable Books. Her memoir Shame was named one of the best books of 1998 by Publishers Weekly. Her books are taught in schools throughout France as contemporary classics. Tanya Leslie also translated Ernaux's A Man's Place, A Woman's Story, Exteriors, Shame, ""I Remain in Darkness,"" and Happening.

Reviews for A Simple Passion

The triumph of Ms. Ernaux's approach ... is to cherish commonplace emotions while elevating the banal expression of them ... A monument to passions that defy simple explanations. -The New York Times Book Review A work of lyrical precision and diamond-hard clarity. -The New Yorker A stunning story, despite its detachment and the careful exclusions of any excess, that pulsates with the very passion Ernaux so truthfully describes ... Small, but abundantly wise. -Kirkus Reviews All this-the suffering and anxiety of waiting, the brief soulagement of lovemaking, the lethargy and fatigue that follow, the renewal of desire, the little indignities and abjections of both obsession and abandonment-Ernaux tells with calm, almost tranquillized matter-of-factness [that] feels like determination, truth to self, clarity of purpose. -The Washington Post


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