In 1963, Annie Ernaux, twenty-three 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 the child. 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 ended up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly died. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.
Passion simple
Annie Ernaux
audiobookMémoire de fille
Annie Ernaux
audiobookL'autre fille : Suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteur
Annie Ernaux
audiobookWriting, the Other Life
Annie Ernaux
audiobookJag har inte kommit ur min natt
Annie Ernaux
bookDen andra dottern
Annie Ernaux
bookThe Years (stage version - West End edition) (NHB Modern Plays)
Annie Ernaux
bookTapaus
Annie Ernaux
audiobookbookNuori mies
Annie Ernaux
audiobookbookDiario del afuera
Annie Ernaux
bookThe Use of Photography
Annie Ernaux
bookThe Years (NHB Modern Plays)
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