Bibliograph

Happening, Annie Ernaux ; translated from the French by Tanya Leslie

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Happening, Annie Ernaux ; translated from the French by Tanya Leslie

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Happening

Oclc number

1085578697

Responsibility statement

Annie Ernaux ; translated from the French by Tanya Leslie

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 and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience"--, Provided by publisher

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