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Happening / Annie Ernaux ; translated from the French by Tanya Leslie.
Van Pelt Library PQ2665.R67 Z46413 2019
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection PQ2665.R67 Z46413 2019
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ernaux, Annie, 1940- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Evénement. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- France.
- Ernaux, Annie, 1940-.
- Ernaux, Annie.
- Authors, French--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, French.
- Abortion--France.
- Abortion.
- Authors, French--Biography--20th century.
- French literature--Translations into English.
- French literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 95 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First US trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "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. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience"-- Provided by publisher.
- "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. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospitalemergency ward where she nearly dies. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "World literature in translation"--Cover.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Joan Detz.
- ISBN:
- 9781609809485
- 1609809483
- OCLC:
- 1085578697
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