Ernaux, Annie
A Man's Place
- ISBN 13:
- 9781913097363
- author:
- Ernaux, Annie
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 80
- Dimensions:
- 125mm X 197mm
- Genre:
- Biography, Personal Memoirs, Fiction & Literature,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
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. The author's narrative of her father's life reveals the shame that haunted him throughout his existence. Ernaux scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language, which came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe. Through her observations, 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, comes to admire.
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