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Happening

By Tanya , Ernaux , Annie;Leslie

Book information

Publisher
Seven Stories Press
ISBN
9781609802264, 9781609809485, 1609809483
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1970187 bytes)
Edition
Second edition
Pages
pages cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1940-;AuthorsAbortion;Abortion--France;AuthorsAnnieFrench -- 20th century -- Biography;Abortion -- FrFrench--20th century;FICTION / Contemporary Women;French;Authors

Description

"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"--

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