A Frozen Woman
By: Annie Ernaux ; translated by Linda Coverdale.
Contributors: Coverdale, Linda.
Edition: Four Walls Eight Windows 1st ed.
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781568580296
Subjects: Ernaux, Annie, 1940-; Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography
Description: She is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She lives in a nice apartment. And yet she is a frozen woman. Like millions of others, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity - the strength and happiness that once were a part of her - ebb and then disappear under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal for a woman is killing her.

In A Frozen Woman, Annie Ernaux shows once again her gift for lending power and authenticity to a distinctly womanist voice. While each of Ernaux's books contains an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, is the most autobiographical of all. Where A Woman's Story described her relationship with her mother, and Simple Passion described a fleeting love affair with a younger man, A Frozen Woman concentrates the spotlight on Annie herself.

Mixing affection, rage and bitterness, this is Ernaux at her most harrowing, affecting and inspiring.