EAN: 9781609804039

A MANS PLACE - ANNIE ERNAUX TASCHENBUCH

A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed
her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since
childhood strictly for his labor  Ernaux's father had grown into a hard  practical man who
showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort 
Ernaux's cold observation reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She
scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to
him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France.
Over the course of the book  Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar
to the world  while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is
and for a daughter he cautiously  even reluctantly admires. A Man's Place is the companion book
to her critically acclaimed memoir about her mother  A Woman's Story.

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