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"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...
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Seven Stories Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English French |
| Edition: | First US trade paperback edition. |
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| Summary: |
"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 an |
| Item Description: | "World literature in translation"--Cover. |
| Carrier Form: | 95 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781609809485 1609809483 |
| Index Number: | PQ2665 |
| CLC: | K835.655.6 |
| Call Number: | K835.655.6/E712-1 |