PARIS — Gisèle Pelicot gives a detailed account in her memoir "A Hymn to Life" of years in which her husband drugged her and invited strangers to rape her while she was unconscious. "My life had become nothing but an ... .
PARIS — Gisèle Pelicot gives a detailed account in her memoir "A Hymn to Life" of years in which her husband drugged her and invited strangers to rape her while she was unconscious ... to hardwood.
A Hymn to Life... It is impossible to read Gisèle Pelicot’s A Hymn to Life without hearing its echo ... And yet A Hymn to Life is not, finally, a book about collapse ... Throughout A Hymn to Life, Gisèle returns to the language of memory and dissociation.
It is a mark of the power and honesty of Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir, A Hymn to Life... I have read enough books by female survivors of male sexual violence to say with confidence that Hymn to Life is unique.