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A Girl's Story

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A Girl's Story

By: Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
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In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits a night 50 years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another person's desire and willpower. It was the summer of 1958, the year she turned 18, and the man she had given herself to had moved on. She'd submitted her will to his and then found that she was a slave without a master.

Now, 50 years later, she realizes she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider the young woman who, until now, she had wanted to forget completely. And, in the process, she also discovers that this was the vital, violent, and dolorous origin of her writing life - her writer's identity, built out of shame, violence, and betrayal.

©2020 Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
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Thoroughly enjoyed this audible edition of Annie Ernaux’s. “ A Girl’s Story “ !I am looking forward to hearing more of her books !

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