Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux

Getting Lost

Annie Ernaux with Alison L. Strayer (Translator)

224 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography 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

emotional 83%
reflective 73%
sad 66%
challenging 13%
tense 13%
dark 6%
inspiring 6%
hopeful 3%
informative 3%
mysterious 3%

Pace

slow 50%
medium 36%
fast 13%

Average rating

3.63

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