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020			_a9781644213520
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bANN/HA
100			_a Annie Ernaux
245			_aHAPPENING
250			_a1
260			_aNew York _bSeven Stories Press _c2019/01/01
300			_g95
500			_aIn 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.
650			_aFiction
650			_aFrench Fiction
700			_aTanya Leslie (tr.)
942			_cLEN
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