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 for...

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Other Press (October 23, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590515439
ISBN-13: 978-1590515433
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 2484079
Format: PDF Text TXT book

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“This book is written (and, thankfully, translated) in such an approachable manner that you can't help but come away liking the author, even if you don't find yourself nodding in agreement at everything she says. It really feels like you're sitting ac...”

y, and a feminist in her fifties. Groult chronicles her experiences and her intellectual developments through successive phases—as an obedient child, an awkward and bookish adolescent, and a submissive wife—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 women’s rights. At ninety-one years old, she concludes that she has been, and still is, a happy woman—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 success—as a daughter, lover, writer, wife, mother, and reluctant socialite—and draws a portrait of the role of French women in the twentieth century.