The Woman Destroyed - Softcover

De Beauvoir, Simone

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394711033 ISBN 13: 9780394711034

Publisher: Pantheon, 1987

Synopsis

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.

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From the Inside Flap

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.

From the Back Cover

"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

Cover photograph by Christine Rodin Cover design by Louise Fili

Pantheon Books, New York

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0394711033
• ISBN 13: 9780394711034
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 256