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A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
‘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 Girl’s Story, her la ...Show more
A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 night fifty years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another's will and desire. In the summer of 1958, eighteen-year-old Ern ...Show more
A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material ...Show more
A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She ...Show more
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie (Translator)
$29.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A New York Times Notable Book A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality (Kirkus Reviews). Upon her mother's death from Alzheimer's, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to capture the rea ...Show more
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux's mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother's condition, she had refused to fathom, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to reco ...Show more
Exteriors by Annie Ernaux
$19.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Taking the form of random journal entries over seven years, Exteriors captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris. Poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive.
Exteriors by Annie Ernaux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Taking the form of random journal entries over seven years, Exteriors captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris. Poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive.
Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Translated brilliantly for the first time by Alison L. Strayer, Getting Lost is a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair. Getting Lost is the diary kept by ...Show more
Happening by Annie Ernaux
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child.This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. I ...Show more
Happening by Annie Ernaux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child.This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. I ...Show more
I Remain In Darkness by Annie Ernaux
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother--and of both women's strength and resiliency--recounts Annie's attempt to first help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease and, then, when that proves futile, bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline and her own e ...Show more