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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.
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"Witty, immensely adroit....These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation."
-- The Atlantic
"A remarkable feat of empathy."
-- Times Literary Supplement
"Brilliant craftsmanship." -- Harper's
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- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0007204655
- ISBN 13 9780007204656
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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