{"product_id":"exteriors-isbn-9781644210970","title":"Exteriors","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Annie Ernaux's most exciting and idiosyncratic works now in paperback for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this novel, which takes the form of journal entries made over the course of seven years, Annie Ernaux concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person's lived environment. She captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of a great city: tortured, chaotic, lyrical, and powerfully alive. \u003ci\u003eExteriors\u003c\/i\u003e 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, and the first in which she is able to leave the past behind her.“\u003ci\u003eExteriors\u003c\/i\u003e is honest, genuine and skillfully executed.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eColumbus Dispatch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ernaux's writings walk a tightrope between art and confession, immersing us in a territory bounded on one side by commitment and on the other by desire.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNewsday\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eJournal du dehors\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eExteriors\u003c\/i\u003e) is the opposite of an intimate diary. It shows a woman observing, without scorn or pity, the world out of which she came . . . . It is the text of a writer for whom the text is, simultaneously, interiority and provocation.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Telerama\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBorn in 1940, ANNIE ERNAUX grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and began teaching high school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular \u003ci\u003eA Man’s Place\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Woman’s Story\u003c\/i\u003e, have become contemporary classics in France. She won the prestigious Prix Renaudot for \u003ci\u003eA Man's Place\u003c\/i\u003e when it was first published in French in 1984. The English edition was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize. The English edition of \u003ci\u003eA Woman’s Story \u003c\/i\u003ewas a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304731758821,"sku":"NP9781644210970","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644210970.jpg?v=1767726564","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/exteriors-isbn-9781644210970","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}