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My Escape: An Autobiography

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My Escape: An Autobiography

This witty autobiography captures the rich and varied life of a renowned French author and pioneering feminist, through the obstacles and movements in twentieth-century France.

Born in 1920 in Paris, Benoite Groult obtained the right to vote only when she was twenty-five years old. She married four times, bore three children, underwent several illegal abortions, became a writer after she turned forty, and a feminist in her fifties. Groult chronicles her experiences and her intellectual developments through successive phasesâ€”as an obedient child, an awkward and bookish adolescent, and a submissive wifeâ€”until finally becoming a liberated novelist.

Here, she recounts the childhood trips she spent with her family, Paris during the occupation, her marriages, motherhood, and her continuous fight for womenâ€™s rights. At ninety-one years old, she concludes that she has been, and still is, a happy womanâ€”lucky to have captured her freedoms, one by one, paying for them, delighting in them, and loving them. Sexy, chatty, and full of shrewd insight, My Escape covers her years of struggle and successâ€”as a daughter, lover, writer, wife, mother, and reluctant socialiteâ€”and draws a portrait of the role of French women in the twentieth century.
Country USA
Manufacturer Other Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2012-10-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590515433

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