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Simone de Beauvoir : a biography / Deirdre Bair

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Jonathan Cape, 1990Description: 718 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 022402048X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 848.91409
Contents:
The family Bertrand de Beauvoir
My sister, my accomplice
When the trouble really started
The girl with a man's brain
The young writer
ZaZa
Eighteen, and in love with love
"A high-minded little bourgeois"
The young girl who worked too much
Castor
On her Paris honeymoon
Learning to be alone again
Rouen
Paris
What will happen tomorrow?
When life goes slightly adrift
To stay and try to survive
Socialism and liberty
The promise of the future
How to make a living
Flinging oneself on the future
Always something to say
Moving in some sort of blur
The most exotic thing
A beautiful, corny love story
The high priestess of existentialism
The crocodile is the frog's destiny
A book about women
All the right enemies
"Not exactly our story, but..."
A $10 book by an unknown Frenchwoman
When "the dream I dreamed" came true
"The place that Goncourt bought"
"My life...this curious object"
Politics and feminism
November was a long sad month
The friendships of women
"Something's going to happen"
"We have lived through some exhilarating times"
Women's battles
Between dread and hope
The last of the 1968 demonstrations
Cleaning up loose ends
"Women, you owe everything to her!"
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Book Book Main Library Reference Section Women’s Collection WC 848.91409 B386b 1990 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 132359d
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WC 843.914 C267w 1984 The words to say it : an autobiographical novel WC 844.54 B635a 1996 American notebooks : a writer's journey WC 848.91409 B386a 1981 Simone de Beauvoir, a life of freedom WC 848.91409 B386b 1990 Simone de Beauvoir : a biography WC 853.92 T966s 2020 The sleeping nymph WC 863 P797t 1998 Tinisima WC 863.7 D582a 2017 All my goodbyes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 619-679) and index.

The family Bertrand de Beauvoir

My sister, my accomplice

When the trouble really started

The girl with a man's brain

The young writer

ZaZa

Eighteen, and in love with love

"A high-minded little bourgeois"

The young girl who worked too much

Castor

On her Paris honeymoon

Learning to be alone again

Rouen

Paris

What will happen tomorrow?

When life goes slightly adrift

To stay and try to survive

Socialism and liberty

The promise of the future

How to make a living

Flinging oneself on the future

Always something to say

Moving in some sort of blur

The most exotic thing

A beautiful, corny love story

The high priestess of existentialism

The crocodile is the frog's destiny

A book about women

All the right enemies

"Not exactly our story, but..."

A $10 book by an unknown Frenchwoman

When "the dream I dreamed" came true

"The place that Goncourt bought"

"My life...this curious object"

Politics and feminism

November was a long sad month

The friendships of women

"Something's going to happen"

"We have lived through some exhilarating times"

Women's battles

Between dread and hope

The last of the 1968 demonstrations

Cleaning up loose ends

"Women, you owe everything to her!"

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