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She Came to Stay
Simone de Beauvoir
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Description for She Came to Stay
Paperback. "One of the most acute and thoughtful achievements of French fiction at mid-century." - New York Times Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 520.
Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Françoise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xaviere catches his attention. The moody young woman from the countryside pries her way between Françoise and Pierre, playing up to each one and deviously pulling them apart, until the only way out of the triangle is destruction. "Behind the sympathy there is curiosity. . ... Read more
Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Françoise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xaviere catches his attention. The moody young woman from the countryside pries her way between Françoise and Pierre, playing up to each one and deviously pulling them apart, until the only way out of the triangle is destruction. "Behind the sympathy there is curiosity. . ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393318845
SKU
V9780393318845
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Ref
99-15
About Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir is the author of The Second Sex and the winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's highest honor, for The Mandarins.
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