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Exteriors

By Annie Ernaux
Translated by Tanya Leslie

By Annie Ernaux
Translated by Tanya Leslie

By Annie Ernaux
Translated by Tanya Leslie

By Annie Ernaux
Translated by Tanya Leslie

By Annie Ernaux
Translated by Tanya Leslie

By Annie Ernaux
Translated by Tanya Leslie

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Paperback $11.95

Oct 26, 2021 | ISBN 9781644210970

Hardcover $16.00

Oct 08, 1996 | ISBN 9781888363319

Ebook $9.99

Jan 04, 2011 | ISBN 9781609802103

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    About Exteriors

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

    One of Annie Ernaux’s most exciting and idiosyncratic works now in paperback for the first time.

    In this novel, which takes the form of journal entries made over the course of seven years, Annie Ernaux concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person’s lived environment. She captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of a great city: tortured, chaotic, lyrical, and powerfully alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux’s books—the first in which she appears largely free of the haunting personal relationships she has written about so powerfully elsewhere, and the first in which she is able to leave the past behind her.

    About Exteriors

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

    In this novel, which takes the form of journal entries made over the course of seven years, Annie Ernaux concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person’s lived environment. She captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of a great city: tortured, chaotic, lyrical, and powerfully alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux’s books–the first in which she appears largely free of the haunting personal relationships she has written about so powerfully elsewhere, and the first in which she is able to leave the past behind her.

    About Exteriors

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

    Taking the form of random journal entries over seven years, Exteriors captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris. Poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive.

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    About Annie Ernaux

    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… More about Annie Ernaux

    About Annie Ernaux

    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… More about Annie Ernaux

    About Annie Ernaux

    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… More about Annie Ernaux

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

    Paperback | $11.95
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Oct 26, 2021 | 96 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781644210970

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

    Hardcover | $16.00
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Oct 08, 1996 | 96 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781888363319

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Jan 04, 2011 | 96 Pages | ISBN 9781609802103
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    Praise

    “Exteriors is honest, genuine and skillfully executed.” —Columbus Dispatch

    “Ernaux’s writings walk a tightrope between art and confession, immersing us in a territory bounded on one side by commitment and on the other by desire.” —Newsday

    “Journal du dehors (Exteriors) is the opposite of an intimate diary. It shows a woman observing, without scorn or pity, the world out of which she came . . . . It is the text of a writer for whom the text is, simultaneously, interiority and provocation.” —Telerama

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