Simple Passion Author:Annie Ernaux "A work of lyrical precision and diamond-hard clarity....A remembrance of desire past." — THE NEW YORKER — Memoirist Annie Ernaux has written eloquently about loss. Now she writes of another kind of loss, the loss of herself in a love and then the loss of the love itself. In spare, beautiful language, she writes of the end of an affair, the coming... more » to terms with its close and with the person she has become because of it.« less