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by Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie (Translator); Introduction by Francine Prose

A Man's Place recounts the story of a daughter coming to terms with her formative years as she writes an unflinching portrait of her father's life and death. A companion work to Ernaux's powerful A Woman's Story; both


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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

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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  • Title A Man's Place
  • Author Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie (Translator); Introduction by Francine Prose
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Seven Stories Press, New York
  • Date 2012-06-05
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian
  • ISBN 9781609804039 / 1609804031
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.4 x 0.3 in (20.32 x 13.72 x 0.76 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Autobiographical fiction, Social classes - France
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012001680
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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.
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