My Escape
Subtitle: An Autobiography
By: by Benoîte Groult ; translated by Nichole Gleisner
Contributors: Gleisner, Nichole
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9781590515433; 9781590515440
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: French Authors; Biography; Feminists
Work titles: Mon évasion
Description: Groult chronicles her growth through successive phases--as an obedient little girl, a troubled adolescent, a submissive wife--until finally becoming a liberated novelist. Here she recounts her choices, her friendships, her marriages, motherhood, and her fights for women's rights. At ninety-one years old, she concludes that she has been, and still is, a happy woman--lucky to have conquered her freedoms, one by one, paying for them, delighting in them, and loving them. Sexy, chatty, and full of shrewd insight, "My Escape" covers her years of struggle and success--as a daughter, lover, writer, wife, mother, and reluctant socialite--and draws a portrait of the role of French women in the twentieth century.