{"product_id":"getting-lost-9781644212196","title":"Getting Lost","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe diary of one of France's most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomat.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGetting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, \u003ci\u003eSimple Passion\u003c\/i\u003e, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters, saying \"his desire for me is the only thing I can be sure of.\" She cannot write, she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world, she awaits his next call; she lives only to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. \u003ci\u003eGetting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e is as strong a book as any that she has written, a haunting, desperate view of strong and successful woman who seduces a man only to lose herself in love and desire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seven Stories Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644212196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Annie Ernaux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42277202297013,"sku":"9781644212196","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ca949380-f3ee-4746-ab52-f9682b5a6dfe.jpg?v=1657595842","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/getting-lost-9781644212196","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}