A Girl's Story

In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits a night fifty years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another person's desire and willpower. It was the summer of 1958, the year she turned eighteen, and the man she had given herself to had moved on. She'd submitted her will to his and then found that she was a slave without a master. Now, fifty years later, she realizes she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider the young woman who, until now, she had wanted to forget completely. And, in the process, she also discovers that this was the vital, violent, and dolorous origin of her writing life--her writer's identity, built out of shame, violence, and betrayal.

Author: Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 04/21/2020
Binding Type: CD
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 5.51h x 6.46w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781690592198

About the Author
Ernaux, Annie: - Annie Ernaux is an award-winning, bestselling French author who began her career writing fiction and later turned to autobiographies. Her novels have won many notable awards and recognitions, including the 2008 Marguerite Duras Prize, three New York Times Notable Books, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998. She is one of the seven founding members of Seven Stories Press.Strayer, Alison L.: - Alison Strayer is a Canadian writer and translator whose work has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Literature and for Translation, the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal, and the Prix litteraire France-Quebec. She currently resides in Paris.Gilbert, Tavia: - Tavia Gilbert is a producer, narrator, writer, and stage and film actor. A six-time Audie nominee and multiple Earphones and Parents' Choice Award winner, she has narrated more than 350 multi-cast and single-voice audiobooks.