Author: Annie Ernaux
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: texts, century, twentieth, place
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1990-12-31
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415059267
ISBN-13: 9780415059268

A fragmented and largely retrospective description of a daughter’s relationship with her father, La Place deals with issues of sexuality, social sta nding and alienation. This will be an accessible and exciting addition to French studies courses.

Author: Annie Ernaux
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Keywords: possession
Number of Pages: 62
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1583228551
ISBN-13: 9781583228555

Self-regard, in the works of Annie Ernaux, is always an excruciatingly painful and exact process. Here, she revisits the peculiar kind of self-fulfillment possible when we examine ourselves in the aftermath of a love affair, and sometimes, even, through the eyes of the lost beloved.Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. In 1984, she won the Prix Renaudot for her book La Place. Eight of her novels have been published in America, including A Woman’s Story, a New York Times Notable Book;

Author: Annie Ernaux
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Keywords: passion, simple
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2003-05
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 1583225749
ISBN-13: 9781583225745

In the spare, elegant style that has won her international acclaim, Annie Ernaux writes of losing oneself in love then losing love itself in this, her standout work. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator plots the emotional and physical course of her all-consuming affair with a married man, providing a glimpse of the true meaning of passion. Featured in this impressive work from one of France’s most important contemporary literary voices is a reading group guide as well as an original author interview.

Author: Annie Ernaux
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Keywords: happening
Number of Pages: 95
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1583222561
ISBN-13: 9781583222560

In 1963, 23-year-old literature student Annie Ernaux realized she was pregnant by a man she was no longer seeing. As the first college-educated person in a family of storekeepers, she regarded her pregnancy as a social failure. Unsuccessful in her attempt to abort the baby herself with a knitting needle, she sought an abortionist, who carried out the task in a sordid Paris apartment. After expelling the fetus in a dormitory bathroom, Ernaux suffered a hemorrhage and nearly died. Happening revisits a trauma Ernaux has never overcome. Forty years later, she gathers the details of this experience

Author: Annie Ernaux
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Keywords: exteriors
Number of Pages: 95
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1888363312
ISBN-13: 9781888363319

The French author of three New York Times Notable Books of the Year presents a novel written in the form of journal entries over seven years that records the tumultuous life of random strangers. Tour. IP.

Author: Annie Ernaux
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Keywords: story, woman
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2003-05
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 1583225757
ISBN-13: 9781583225752

Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Annie Ernaux tries to recapture the life of her mother, "the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town." In sparse but eloquent prose, Ernaux explores the mother-daughter bond, the alienating worlds that threaten to disrupt it, and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love. Featured in this impressive work from one of France’s most important contemporary literary voices is a reading group guide as well as an original author interview.

Author: Annie B. Co
Publisher: The History Pre
Keywords: economy, luxury, home, methods, latest, england, cook, book, new
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-12-31
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 1596294000
ISBN-13: 9781596294004

Both an entertaining collection of recipes (which quickly become stories in themselves) and a fascinating slice of life from a century ago. Egg yolks are yelks, there are not one, but two mock turtle recipes that require the scalding and cleaning of a calf’s head (don’t ask about the tongue) and everything is cooked over fire- live, wood-burning fire. from the foreword by Annie B. Copps, Senior Food Editor, Yankee magazine