| The Woman Destroyed Contributor(s): de Beauvoir, Simone (Author) |
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ISBN: 0394711033 ISBN-13: 9780394711034 Publisher: Pantheon Books OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1987 Annotation: These three long stories draw us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. In the title story, the heroine's serenity is shattered when she learns that her husband is having an affair. In "The Age of Discretion," a successful, happily married professor finds herself increasingly distressed by her son's absorption in his young wife and her worldly values. In "The Monologue," a rich, spoiled woman, home alone on New Year's Eve, pours out a lifetime's rage and frustration in a harrowing diatribe. Enthralling as fiction, suffused with de Beauvoir's remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 84001846 |
| Series: Pantheon Modern Writers |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.56 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In three "immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion" (The Sunday Herald Times London]), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. Enthralling as faction, suffused with de Beauvoir's remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. |