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Exteriors

By: Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
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Summary

In Exteriors, Annie Ernaux concentrates not on the essential details of a relationship with a family member or lover as before but on ephemeral encounters within the larger circle of one's environment and the hundreds of strangers who inhabit it. Here, she captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of a great city: tortured, chaotic, lyrical, and powerfully alive. Exteriors is, in many ways, the most ecstatic of Ernaux's books, the first in which she appears largely free of the haunting personal relationships she has written about so powerfully elsewhere, the first in which she is able to leave her past behind.

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Excellent work by Annie Ernaux. The performance was a little too dramatised but otherwise great.

Wonderfully raw and retrospective

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