Cleaned Out
127 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1974
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ISBN: 9781564781390
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publication date: 1 September 1996
Description
Cleaned Out tells the story of Denise Lesur, a 20-year-old woman suffering the after-effects of a back-alley abortion. Alone in her college dorm room, Denise attempts to understand how her suffocating middle-class upbringing has brought her to such an awful present. Ernaux, one of France's most important contemporary writers, daringly breaks with formal French literary tradition in this moving novel about abortion, growing up, and coming to terms with one's childhood.
