Consent : a memoir / Vanessa Springora ; translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer.
"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
- ISBN: 9780063047907
- 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. |
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Subject: | Springora, Vanessa. Publishers and publishing > France > Biography. Adult child sexual abuse victims > France > Biography. Publishers and publishing. France. France. |
Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. |
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Burlington Public Library | BIO SPRINGOR 2021 | 39851001589135 | Non-fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |
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"--
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.
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.