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Happening

By Annie Ernaux

Happening

By Annie Ernaux

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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. 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 and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
96
Release Date:
2019-05-14
Publication Date:
2019-05-14
Publisher:
Seven Stories Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1609809483
ISBN13:
9781609809485
Weight:
118 g
Height:
141 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
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