Girls Story

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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

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781913097158
Published: April 2020

Number of pages: 152
Width: 125 mm
Height: 197 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions