Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux

Getting Lost

Annie Ernaux

240 pages first pub 2001 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced

Description

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writin...

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Moods

reflective 82%
emotional 76%
sad 52%
dark 17%
challenging 16%
tense 14%
hopeful 4%
informative 4%
adventurous 2%
funny 2%
inspiring 2%
mysterious 2%
lighthearted 1%

Pace

slow 51%
medium 37%
fast 11%

Average rating

3.52

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