Consent: a memoir of stolen adolescence

The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteen'Dazzling' New York Times'A gut-punch of a memoir with prose that cuts like a knife' Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark VanessaThirty years ago, Vanessa Sp...

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Main Author: Springora, Vanessa 1972- (Author)
Contributors: Lehrer, Natasha (Translator)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: London HarperVIA 2022
In:Year: 2020
Edition:HarperVia paperback edition
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Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
UB: KB 21 A 2791
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Summary:The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteen'Dazzling' New York Times'A gut-punch of a memoir with prose that cuts like a knife' Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark VanessaThirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of France's most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of an influential man. At the end of 2019, as women around the world began to speak out, Springora, now in her forties and the director of one of France's leading publishing houses, decided to reclaim her own story.Consent recalls her stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Springora's painstaking memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a fourteen-year-old girl to become involved with a fifty-year-old man
Physical Description:viii, 194 Seiten
ISBN:9780008424961
0008424969