A Frozen Woman
by Annie Ernaux
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She is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She lives in a nice apartment. And yet she is a frozen woman. Like millions of others, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity - the strength and happiness that once were a part of her - ebb and then disappear under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal for a woman is killing her.
In A Frozen Woman, Annie Ernaux shows once again her gift for lending power and authenticity to a distinctly womanist voice. While each of Ernaux's books contains an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, is the most autobiographical of all. Where A Woman's Story described her relationship with her mother, and Simple Passion described a fleeting love affair with a younger man, A Frozen Woman concentrates the spotlight on Annie herself.
Mixing affection, rage and bitterness, this is Ernaux at her most harrowing, affecting and inspiring.
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A Frozen Woman
1995, Four Walls Eight Windows
Hardcover
in English
- Four Walls Eight Windows 1st ed.
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1995, Four Walls Eight Windows
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La femme gelée
1987, Gallimard
in French
- 1er dépôt légal dans la collection
2070378187 9782070378180
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