A Man's Place (new Revised Edition)

About This Novel

When her father died two months after passing the teaching qualification exam, Anne Ernault used this as an opportunity to tell the story of one man's life. Born at the turn of the century, he had to leave school early and worked first as a farmer, then in a factory, and later as the owner of a small grocery store in Normandy until his death in 1967. He exercised self-restraint, worked hard, was cautious in his words and deeds, and tried hard to maintain his position as a man in society, but he could never get rid of the fear of slipping back to the lower class. The author uses cold observation to reveal the shame that plagued her father throughout his life, as well as the alienation and pain between father and daughter caused by class restrictions. This biography of a father is also the story of an intellectual's daughter's betrayal-of her parents, her upbringing, the schism between affection and shame, between belonging and alienation.

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