Simple Passion - Softcover

Ernaux, Annie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583225749 ISBN 13: 9781583225745

Publisher: Seven Stories Press, 2003

Synopsis

A New York Times Notable Book

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, she seeks the truth behind an existence lived entirely for someone else, and, in the pieces of its aftermath, she is able to find it.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

of lyrical precision and diamond-hard clarity....A remembrance of desire past."
THE NEW YORKER
Memoirist Annie Ernaux has written eloquently about loss. Now she writes of another kind of loss, the loss of herself in a love and then the loss of the love itself. In spare, beautiful language, she writes of the end of an affair, the coming to terms with its close and with the person she has become because of it.

About the Author:

Born in 1940, ANNIE ERNAUX grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and began teaching high school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man’s Place and A Woman’s Story, have become contemporary classics in France. She won the prestigious Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place when it was first published in French in 1984. The English edition was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The English edition of A Woman’s Story was a New York Times Notable Book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1583225749
• ISBN 13: 9781583225745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80