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    A Frozen Woman
    A Frozen Woman
    A Frozen Woman
    Audiobook5 hours

    A Frozen Woman

    Written by Annie Ernaux and Linda Coverdale

    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert

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    About this audiobook

    One woman's story of motherhood and matrimony shows how enthusiasm and curiosity gradually disappear under the weight of daily routine until she becomes a frozen woman.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateDec 10, 2019
    ISBN9781666579666
    A Frozen Woman
    Author

    Annie Ernaux

    Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary 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. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.  

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    • 4/5
      Rarely does Ernaux repeat herself, and always she has something important to say. Her positions, and stories, may not always be the most popular, but she makes perfect sense to me. She is, in my opinion, one hell of a woman. And a very good writer as well.

      After having a couple days to think more about what I read, it is obvious to me that Annie was pretty angry at herself for falling into this man-family-homemaker trap that she never ever truly wanted for herself. But she is not a man hater. She is bitingly real about the stupid stereotypes women inflict on themselves, and mother-in-laws, for example, who promote their submissive motherly, female behavior. But Annie never gets in your face about things she finds disgusting. But she is sarcastic, funny, and clear about what she finds repulsive in herself and those she is supposed to love.

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