A Girl's Story

Annie Ernaux, Alison Strayer

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FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS
07 April 2020

Memoirs; Literary essays; Fiction & Literature

In A Girl's 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 Girl's 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

By: Annie Ernaux
Translated by: Alison Strayer
Imprint: FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 125mm,
ISBN: 9781913097158
ISBN 10: 1913097153
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 07 April 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 d'Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man's Place and A Woman's 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 life's work.