{"product_id":"the-young-man-by-annie-ernaux","title":"The Young Man by Annie Ernaux","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnnie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A sublime book.” —Olivia de Lamberterie,\u003cem\u003e Elle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigorous study of life and an experiment. These fragments of living, however evanescent, are precious, irreplaceable, like a skin that never fades.” —Caroline Montpetit in \u003cem\u003eLe Devoir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"synopsis\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Young Man\u003c\/em\u003e is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time— together with a sense that she is living her life backwards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching. T\u003cem\u003ehe Young Man \u003c\/em\u003erecalls Ernaux as the “scandalous girl” she once was, but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing. It was first published in France in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53088573030709,"sku":null,"price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/9781644213209-f_feature-079ba48781a5ca7eddc38799b18f417c.jpg?v=1783101415","url":"https:\/\/wombhousebooks.com\/products\/the-young-man-by-annie-ernaux","provider":"Womb House Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}