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Consent : a memoir / Vanessa Springora ; translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer.

Springora, Vanessa, (author.). Lehrer, Natasha, (translator.).

Summary:

"A French memoir in the age of #metoo. A literary sensation, Vanessa Springora's Consent weaves her personal narrative of a relationship during her childhood with a famous, much older writer into a stunning and forceful indictment of the literary world that allowed sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked"-- Provided by publisher.

Thirty years ago, Springora was the teenage muse of one of the France's most celebrated writers. Here she offers her perspective of their relationship: a universal #MeToo story of power, manipulation, trauma, recovery, and resiliency that exposes the hypocrisy of a culture that has allowed the sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked. Her memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a thirteen-year-old girl to become involved with a fifty-year-old man, and reflects on the ways in which this disturbing relationship changed and affected her as she grew older.

Record details

ISBN: 9780063047884
ISBN: 0063047888
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ISBN: 006304790X
ISBN: 9780063060388
ISBN: 0063060388
Physical Description: viii, 194 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First HarperCollins edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Originally published as Le Consentement in France in 2020 by Editions Grasset & Fasquelle"
Language Note:	Text in English, translated from the French.