num_pages: 127
description: Cleaned Out tells the story of Denise Lesur, a 20-year-old woman suffering the after-effects of a back-alley abortion. Alone in her college dorm room, Denise attempts to understand how her suffocating middle-class upbringing has brought her to such an awful present. Ernaux, one of France's most important contemporary writers, daringly breaks with formal French literary tradition in this moving novel about abortion, growing up, and coming to terms with one's childhood.
language: English
title: Cleaned Out
titlecomplete: Cleaned Out
genres: Fiction, France, French Literature, Roman, Feminism, Nobel Prize, Contemporary, Classics, Novels, 20th Century
ratings_count: 2639
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press