TY - BOOK AU - Bair,Deirdre TI - Simone de Beauvoir: : a biography SN - 022402048X U1 - 848.91409 PY - 1990/// CY - London PB - Jonathan Cape KW - Beauvoir, Simone de, KW - Authors, French KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Feminists KW - France N1 - 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!" ER -