Name: A Man'S Place
Price: 8.99 GBP
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Author: Annie Ernaux
ISBN: 9781913097363

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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 nació en 1940 en la región francesa de Normandía. Creció en la pequeña localidad de Yvetot y estudió literatura en la Universidad de Ruán. Profesora de esa asignatura en liceos de Annecy y de la periferia parisiense, en la actualidad vive cerca de la capital francesa y trabaja en el Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondanse. En Tusquets Editores hemos publicado Pura pasión, La vergüenza, El acontecimiento y El lugar (Premio Renaudot, 1984). En 2019 recibió el Premio Formentor al conjunto de su obra.

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