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This sequel to A Man's Place and prequel to Simple Passion is Annie Ernaux's description of a transformation from girlhood into womanhood“Annie Ernaux concisely charts telling moments during adolescence love, marriage, career, and motherhood...” - St. Louis Post DispatchA Frozen Woman charts Annie Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfil herself in her chosen profession - 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. While each of Ernaux's books contains an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, concentrates the spotlight unflinchingly on the author herself. "A Frozen Woman doesn't have quite the concentrated, startling power of the later books, and it seems more chained to its

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Author

Annie Ernaux; Linda Coverdale

Publisher

Seven Stories Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609802202

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.75 / 5 (121 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14