FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCES
by Simone de Beauvoir; (Translated from the French By Richard Howard)
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New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's, 1963. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Text/Bright, Clean, AS NEW; English translation. Gilt embossed, brick red linen boards/NF. DJ/Poor; intact w/marked edges losses to upper/lower spine. Upper text block dyed red. 1963, third autobiography of four by Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986), French writer, intellectual, political activist, feminist & long time partner of Jean-Paul Sartre. This volume follows (titles in English) "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter", "The Prime of Life", and precedes "All Said and Done". 658 pgs. Reflections on the enigma of one's life & place in history --- her own, in her mid fifties, and the ambiguously symbolic contrast between that if Sartre and Camus --- the book responds Russian aggression in Hungary, as well as France's seven year long brutal war of disengagement with Algeria. A powerful work.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018832
- Title
- FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCES
- Author
- Simone de Beauvoir; (Translated from the French By Richard Howard)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1963
- Pages
- 658
- Keywords
- Autobiography/
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- Autobiography; Philosophy; Memoir;
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