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30 de ago. de 2018 · THE WOMAN DESTROYED is a collection of three stories, each an exquisite and passionate study of a woman trapped by circumstances, trying to rebuild her life. In the first story, ‘The Age of Discretion’, a successful scholar fast approaching middle age faces a double shock – her son’s abandonment of the career she has chosen for him and the harsh critical rejection of her latest ...
- Simone de Beauvoir
The Woman Destroyed. 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 ...
4 de mar. de 2020 · The cover of the Pantheon paperback edition of ‘The Woman Destroyed’ is striking. As a review noted in ‘The Atlantic,’ the book is “Witty, immensely adroit . . . These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation.”. In each of the three novellas—The Age of Discretion, The ...
The Woman Destroyed. Simone De Beauvoir. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 12, 1987 - Fiction - 256 pages. One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The ...
The Woman Destroyed. Simone de Beauvoir. Fontana, 1994 - Fiction - 220 pages. First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability - in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one.
12 de ago. de 1987 · 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 ...
The Woman Destroyed. Paperback – Jan. 16 2006. First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability – in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one. THE WOMAN DESTROYED is a collection of three stories ...
- Simone de Beauvoir
