Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me – a Memoir

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Her seven-year relationship with the domineering and difficult de Beauvoir required a radical change in approach, yielding another groundbreaking literary profile. A Pulitizer Prize Finalist While quite literally dodging one subject or the other, and sometimes hiding out in the backrooms of the great cafes of Paris, Bair learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next. A The Times & Sunday Times Literary Nonfiction Book of the Year'Fascinating. A story well told. Drawing on Bair's extensive notes from the period, including never-before-told anecdotes and details that were considered impossible to publish at the time, Parisian Lives is full of personality and warmth and gives us an entirely new window on the all-too-human side of these legendary thinkers.