Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography - Softcover

Bair, Deirdre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671741802 ISBN 13: 9780671741808

Publisher: Touchstone, 1991

Synopsis

Simone De Beauvoir This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional figures of her generation. "As a reference work . . . Simone de Beauvoir can be considered definitive".--The Atlantic. 16-page photographic insert.

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Review:

'This is the most detailed life we have of the woman who freed herself from her narrow upbringing to become a writer, feminist and companion of Sartre' Guardian; 'Bair's extensive interviews with the old Beauvoir capture perfectly the honesty and integrity of this formidable moralist' Edmund White, Book World; 'Simone de Beauvoir, already established as a work of reference, leaves future biographers nowhere to go' Times Literary Supplement

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‘This is the most detailed life we have of the woman who freed herself from her narrow upbringing to become a writer, feminist and companion of Sartre’ Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Touchstone
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0671741802
• ISBN 13: 9780671741808
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 736