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The image of her
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-19862025
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Laurence is a woman who appears to live an ideal life. Weekends in the country, weekdays in Paris - her life features all the trappings of 1960s French bourgeoisie. She has money, a handsome husband, two daughters and a lover. She also has a successful career as an advertising copywriter, though her mind unbidden writes copy while she's at home, and dreams of domesticity in the office. But Laurence is a woman whose experience of life has always been overwritten by the expectation of perfection. It is only when her 10-year-old daughter, Catherine, starts to vocalise her despair about the unfairness of the world that Laurence begins to act, finally grappling with a life that prizes image over truth.
Main title:
The image of her / by Simone de Beauvoir ; translated by Lauren Elkin.
Author:
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986Elkin, Lauren, translator
Imprint:
London : Vintage Classics, 2025.
Collation:
196 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781784879907 (hardback)
Language:
English
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BRN:
528754
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