Exteriors

Name: Exteriors
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Annie Ernaux
ISBN: 9781666579659

Author: Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 1 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 12/10/2019

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women, Nonfiction, History, Social History

Synopsis

In Exteriors, Annie Ernaux concentrates not on the essential details of a relationship with a family member or lover as before but on ephemeral encounters within the larger circle of one's environment and the hundreds of strangers who inhabit it. Here, 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, the first in which she is able to leave her past behind.

About Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux is an award-winning, bestselling French author who began her career writing fiction and later turned to autobiographies. Her novels have won many notable awards and recognitions, including the 2008 Marguerite Duras Prize, three New York Times Notable Books, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998. She is one of the seven founding members of Seven Stories Press.

About Tavia Gilbert

Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed producer, narrator, writer, and stage and film actor. An Audie and Earphones award winner, she has been nominated for nearly every possible award and has been named an Audiobook Narrator of the Year by Booklist Magazine. Part of the Grammy-nominated full-cast recording of Charlotte’s Web, she has narrated more than 700 solo, multi-cast, and full-cast titles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew Ted on March 18, 2023

37th book of 2023. Not even sure this took an hour to read. A nothing book from Ernaux. Fragmented descriptions, no real emotion, and obviously no character, beside Ernaux herself. As per I find Ernaux sometimes illuminating, but mostly less than impressive and at times, pretentious. There's just som......more

Goodreads review by Dave on February 05, 2022

So I think this is the last of the several brief memoirs or autofictions I have read and all in 2022 so far (!) from Annie Ernaux. I read ones about her mother, her father, her early sexual life, an affair with an older, married man, an abortion, all in separate books, many based on detailed diaries......more

Goodreads review by diario_de_um_leitor_pjv on October 11, 2022

We must get you a cat. All writers have cats. (...) So writing is not enough; there need to be external signs, material evidence to define what a 'real' writer is. Yet these signs are available to all of us." Annie Ernaux Mais um livro de Annie Ernaux que estive a ler apaixonado. Desta feita um peque......more

Goodreads review by Brendan on December 06, 2021

This is a pleasant little book (74 pages!) describing various people the French author Annie Ernaux witnessed (usually on the metro) from 1985 to 1992. Or, as the author herself puts it, "anonymous figures glimpsed in the Métro or in waiting rooms ... who revive our memory and reveal our true selves......more

Goodreads review by Naim on November 27, 2021

"I realize that I am forever combing reality for signs of literature."......more