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.
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She won the Prix Renaudot in 1984 for her book La Place, an autobiographical narrative focusing on her relationship with her father and her experiences growing up in a small town in France, and her subsequent process of moving into adulthood and away from her parents' place of origin.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing. Seller Inventory # 7249
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Beautiful copy in unclipped jacket of the first translation of one of Ernaux's books into English. From the library of Steven Moore, the Dalkey editor who copyedited and designed it, inside and out. The top of the jacket has a very slight crease, otherwise immaculate. Scarce even before she won the Nobel. Seller Inventory # ABE-1688819934389