Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux

Getting Lost

Annie Ernaux with Alison L. Strayer (Translator)

240 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
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Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writin...

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Moods

emotional 79%
reflective 77%
sad 48%
challenging 17%
dark 15%
tense 15%
informative 5%
inspiring 4%
adventurous 3%
hopeful 3%
lighthearted 3%
funny 2%
mysterious 2%

Pace

slow 48%
medium 40%
fast 11%

Average rating

3.49

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