
Happening
Author: Annie Ernaux
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Unabridged: 1 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 12/10/2019
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women, Family Life

Author: Annie Ernaux
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Unabridged: 1 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 12/10/2019
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women, Family Life
Annie Ernaux is an award-winning, bestselling French author who began her career writing fiction and later turned to autobiographies. Her novels have won many notable awards and recognitions, including the 2008 Marguerite Duras Prize, three New York Times Notable Books, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998. She is one of the seven founding members of Seven Stories Press.
Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed producer, narrator, writer, and stage and film actor. An Audie and Earphones award winner, she has been nominated for nearly every possible award and has been named an Audiobook Narrator of the Year by Booklist Magazine. Part of the Grammy-nominated full-cast recording of Charlotte’s Web, she has narrated more than 700 solo, multi-cast, and full-cast titles.
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