A Frozen Woman

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Writing in the pages of The New Yorker, Daphne Merkin described Annie Ernaux's
Simple Passion as "a work of lyrical precision and diamond-hard clarity." Caryn James,
in The New York Times, called that book "a monument to passions that deify simple
explanations." The Boston Globe referred to Ernaux's A Woman's Story as "a stunning
emotional testament." The New York Times called it "infinitely original." Ernaux's
A Mans Place was described in the San Francisco Chronicle as "an extraordinary
emotional achievement." The Los Angeles Times described her A Frozen Woman as
"limpid perfection, uncluttered Gallic grace, words arranged in harmony." The
Review of Contemporary Fiction called it "devastating and exhilarating."
A FROZEN WOMAN charts Ernaux's
teenage awakening, and then the parallel pro-
gression of her desire to be desirable and her
ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profes-
sion—with the inevitable conflict between the
two. And then she is... Tovább

Fülszöveg

$9.95 (L6.99)
Writing in the pages of The New Yorker, Daphne Merkin described Annie Ernaux's
Simple Passion as "a work of lyrical precision and diamond-hard clarity." Caryn James,
in The New York Times, called that book "a monument to passions that deify simple
explanations." The Boston Globe referred to Ernaux's A Woman's Story as "a stunning
emotional testament." The New York Times called it "infinitely original." Ernaux's
A Mans Place was described in the San Francisco Chronicle as "an extraordinary
emotional achievement." The Los Angeles Times described her A Frozen Woman as
"limpid perfection, uncluttered Gallic grace, words arranged in harmony." The
Review of Contemporary Fiction called it "devastating and exhilarating."
A FROZEN WOMAN charts Ernaux's
teenage awakening, and then the parallel pro-
gression of her desire to be desirable and her
ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profes-
sion—with the inevitable conflict between the
two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher
married to an executive, mother of two infant
sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises
her children. And yet, like millions of other
women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her happiness,
slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone
around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a woman is killing her. Vissza