Annie Leslie and Other Stories
Title | Annie Leslie and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Mrs. S. C. Hall |
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Pages | 190 |
Release | 1877 |
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Annie Leslie
Title | Annie Leslie PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Maria Hall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1877 |
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Happening
Title | Happening PDF eBook |
Author | Annie Ernaux |
Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 2011-01-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1609802268 |
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "Happening recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed — and world ominously narrowed — in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . . . It feels urgently of the moment." --The New York Times 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. Now an award-winning film by Audrey Diwan Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival
Exteriors
Title | Exteriors PDF eBook |
Author | Annie Ernaux |
Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2011-01-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1609802101 |
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Taking the form of random journal entries over seven years, Exteriors captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris. Poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive.
A Man's Place
Title | A Man's Place PDF eBook |
Author | Annie Ernaux |
Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2012-05-29 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1609802551 |
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, 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 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 cafe 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. A Man's Place is the companion book to her critically acclaimed memoir about her mother, A Woman's Story.
Shame
Title | Shame PDF eBook |
Author | Annie Ernaux |
Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
Pages | 49 |
Release | 2020-05-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1609803027 |
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon," begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the diamond-sharp analytical eye of a scientist, Annie Ernaux provides a powerful reflection on experience and the power of violent memory to endure through time, to determine the course of a life.
Annie and the Wolves
Title | Annie and the Wolves PDF eBook |
Author | Andromeda Romano-Lax |
Publisher | Soho Press |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2022-01-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1641293160 |
A modern-day historian finds her life intertwined with Annie Oakley's in an electrifying novel that explores female revenge and the allure of changing one's past. Ruth McClintock is obsessed with Annie Oakley. For nearly a decade, she has been studying the legendary sharpshooter, convinced that a scarring childhood event was the impetus for her crusade to arm every woman in America. This search has cost Ruth her doctorate, a book deal, and her fiancé—but finally it has borne fruit. She has managed to hunt down what may be a journal of Oakley’s midlife struggles, including secret visits to a psychoanalyst and the desire for vengeance against the “Wolves,” or those who have wronged her. With the help of Reece, a tech-savvy senior at the local high school, Ruth attempts to establish the journal’s provenance, but she’s begun to have jarring out-of-body episodes parallel to Annie’s own lived experiences. As she solves Annie’s mysteries, Ruth confronts her own truths, including the link between her teenage sister’s suicide and an impending tragedy in her Minnesota town that Ruth can still prevent.