This narrative charts Annie Ernaux's teenage awakening and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession—with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, a mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment and raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her happiness, slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a woman is killing her. While each of Ernaux's books contains an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, one of Ernaux's early works, concentrates the spotlight piercingly on Annie herself. Mixing affection, rage, and bitterness, A Frozen Woman shows us Ernaux's developing art when she still relied on traditional narrative, before the shortened form emerged that has since become her trademark.
The Young Man
Annie Ernaux
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Annie Ernaux
audiobookA Girl's Story
Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
audiobookHappening
Annie Ernaux
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Annie Ernaux, Linda Coverdale
audiobookExteriors
Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
audiobookI Remain in Darkness
Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
audiobookShame
Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
audiobookThe Possession
Annie Ernaux
audiobookSimple Passion
Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
audiobookA Woman's Story
Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
audiobookA Man's Place
Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
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Aftershocks : A Memoir
Nadia Owusu
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David Harewood
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Nadia Owusu
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Lauren Groff
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Arthur Schnitzler
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