A Dangerous Liaison: A Revelatory New Biography of Simone Debeauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

Author:   Carole Seymour-Jones
Publisher:   Overlook Press
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9781590202685


Pages:   576
Publication Date:   03 September 2009
Format:   Hardback
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A Dangerous Liaison: A Revelatory New Biography of Simone Debeauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre


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Author:   Carole Seymour-Jones
Publisher:   Overlook Press
Imprint:   Overlook Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 4.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.903kg
ISBN:  

9781590202685


ISBN 10:   1590202686
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   03 September 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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Seymour-Jones's narrative crackles and pops with engrossing anecdotes. - The Observer <br> Filled with delicious detail... eminently readable. Seymour-Jones's book is as page-turning as it is scholarly. The end result is quite dazzling. - The Guardian <br> A fascinating new book. -The Daily Mail <br> Extremely detailed, well researched, and completely absorbing. - Booklist (STARRED review) <br> Appearing in what might be called a 'sexography, ' Sartre, the Nobel-winning existentialist philosopher, and Beauvoir, existentialist and pioneering feminist, cavort with a dizzying panoply of partners...A spiraling double-helix of a relationship whose sordid beauty fascinates even as it repels. - Kirkus <br> An important contribution to the study of de Beauvoir and Sartre that will be appreciated both by general readers and by scholars of French literature and culture and women's studies. - Library Journal


Seymour-Jones''s narrative crackles and pops with engrossing anecdotes. - The Observer <br><br> Filled with delicious detail... eminently readable. Seymour-Jones''s book is as page-turning as it is scholarly. The end result is quite dazzling. - The Guardian <br><br> A fascinating new book. -The Daily Mail <br><br> Extremely detailed, well researched, and completely absorbing. - Booklist (STARRED review) <br><br> Appearing in what might be called a ''sexography, '' Sartre, the Nobel-winning existentialist philosopher, and Beauvoir, existentialist and pioneering feminist, cavort with a dizzying panoply of partners...A spiraling double-helix of a relationship whose sordid beauty fascinates even as it repels. - Kirkus <br><br> An important contribution to the study of de Beauvoir and Sartre that will be appreciated both by general readers and by scholars of French literature and culture and women''s studies. - Library Journal <br><br>


Seymour-Jones's narrative crackles and pops with engrossing anecdotes. - The Observer <br> <br> Filled with delicious detail... eminently readable. Seymour-Jones's book is as page-turning as it is scholarly. The end result is quite dazzling. - The Guardian <br> <br> A fascinating new book. -The Daily Mail <br> <br> Extremely detailed, well researched, and completely absorbing. - Booklist (STARRED review) <br> <br> Appearing in what might be called a 'sexography, ' Sartre, the Nobel-winning existentialist philosopher, and Beauvoir, existentialist and pioneering feminist, cavort with a dizzying panoply of partners...A spiraling double-helix of a relationship whose sordid beauty fascinates even as it repels. - Kirkus <br><br> An important contribution to the study of de Beauvoir and Sartre that will be appreciated both by general readers and by scholars of French literature and culture and women's studies. - Library Journal


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