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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 overcame.
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Happening, Annie Ernaux
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- Released
- 2019
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- Title
- Happening
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Annie Ernaux
- Publisher
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 96
- ISBN10
- 1910695831
- ISBN13
- 9781910695838
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Women, Autobiographies & Memoirs, France, Gifts for women, Society, Secrets, Feminism, French Literature, Memories, Pregnancy, Nobel prize, Prejudices, 1960s, Abortion
- Rating
- 4.35 out of 5
- Description
- 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.