America Day By Day - Softcover

De Beauvoir, Simone

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753808595 ISBN 13: 9780753808597

Publisher: Phoenix, 1999

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De Beauvoir travelled intrepidly from New York to Washington, San Francisco to Las Vegas, Chicago (where she met Nelson Algren) to New Orleans and the Deep South. Her account is packed with beautiful descriptions and penetrating observations about postwar American culture, food, and landscape - some of historical interest, some, which ring just as true today. De Beauvoir loved exploring the seamier side of cities - visiting drug dens in Chicago, smoking poet a bohemian parties in New York. She was shocked by the vast gulf between rich and proof everywhere in the country, and by segregation in the Deep South. "America Day by Day" is classic travel writing - vivid, personal, and inquisitive.

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"Whether she is dancing at the Savoy or in search of jazz in New Orleans, Beauvoir's observations always seem fresh and sometimes even profound."--"Santa Fe New Mexican

Book Description:

Simone de Beauvoir�s wonderful account of her travels around America in 1947.

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