A review by gareth_beniston
Exteriors by Annie Ernaux

funny informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

I wasn't sure to begin with but 20 pages I was beginning to pause and think on most pages. By page 40 I was pausing on everything! Occasionally it feels dated - in that the observations seem a little obvious to us now? There are also points where I slightly despair about how much she sounds like a (clichéd) French intellectual...but I'm not sure if that's because I know she's a french intellectual!?