The Young Man

Name: The Young Man
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Annie Ernaux
ISBN: 9781666646450

Author: Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 09/12/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs, Women

Synopsis

This is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some thirty 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. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls 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.

About Annie Ernaux

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.

About Alison L. Strayer

Alison Strayer is a Canadian writer and translator whose work has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Literature and for Translation, the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal, and the Prix litteraire France-Quebec. She currently resides in Paris.

About Tavia Gilbert

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ilse on July 31, 2024

Just like the four books that I read previously of Annie Ernaux, reading her The young man left me conflicted, coaxing me into ruminating more than I had suspected on the moment I closed the booklet, a flimsy forty pages one can read in the twinkling of an eye. This account was partly written in 198......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on August 10, 2024

I love that so much of Annie Ernaux’s work is like A.E.: Would you like to hear about a scandelous affair I had? Me: ABSOLUTELY And then I perch eagerly at her feet and we drink the exquisite wine that is her prose and get all the juicy details that often come as an outpouring of emotional intensity li......more

Goodreads review by Terrie on October 03, 2023

The Young Man by Annie Ernaux is a Unique Non-Fiction Listening Experience! I feel like I've just walked through Annie Ernaux's head... Random thoughts. Pieces and parts. It feels like miscellaneous notes jotted down on napkins and slips of paper, shoved into pockets and purses, retrieved much la......more

Goodreads review by Enrique on April 24, 2023

Pues ya está, leído en media hora. Podía dar para mucho el tema, pero apenas esboza su sentir. Estoy pensando después, que un tema tan autobiográfico difícilmente puede armar una novela completa. Parece como si el editor le hubiera dicho: "¡Annie, que te han dado el Nobel! hay que publicar algo", y e......more

Goodreads review by Ulysse on August 03, 2024

Le Jeune Homme’s Lament Sure I had an affair with Annie Ernaux The famous French writer you all should know Do I see this as a major achievement? My answer would have to be both yes and no Not everyone can say he once bagged a winner Who would always pay for his cocktails at dinner Who turned a poor stude......more