Name: A Man'S Place
SKU: 53361413
Price: 514.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Annie Ernaux
ISBN: 9781913097363

Type

Physical Book

Author

Annie Ernaux

Publisher

Fitzcarraldo Editions

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781913097363

A Man'S Place

Annie Ernaux (Author) · Fitzcarraldo Editions · Paperback

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Synopsis "A Man'S Place"

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 comfort, Ernaux’s cold observation in A MAN'S PLACE reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and café in rural France. Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires.

Annie Ernaux

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Annie Ernaux was born in 1940 in the French region of Normandy. She grew up in the small town of Yvetot and studied literature at the University of Rouen. A teacher of that subject in high schools in Annecy and the Parisian suburbs, she currently lives near the French capital and works at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. At Tusquets Editores we have published Pure Passion, Shame, The Event, and The Place (Renaudot Prize, 1984). In 2019, she received the Formentor Prize for her body of work.

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