Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter |
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| Author:
| de Beauvoir, Simone |
| Series title: | Perennial Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-06-256617-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 2016 |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers
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| Imprint: | Harper Perennial |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $23.99 |
Book Description:
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"A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way." --New York Times
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century
Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an...
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"A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way." --New York Times
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century
Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.
Beauvoir vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.