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ISBN-10: 0394728998
ISBN-13: 9780394728995
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publish Date: 02/12/1985
Dimensions: 8.02" L, 5.06" W, 0.31" H

A Very Easy Death: A Memoir

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Overview

A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence” (The Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this is an end-of-life account that no reader is likely to forget.

Translated by Patrick O’Brian

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"This book is written with restrained emotion and a literalness, a faithfulness to fact, that is very moving coming from a woman whom we have known as dedicated to abstractions. This is a difficult book to read as it must have been a difficult book to write . . . Unsparing in its depiction of a human being in her inevitable encounter with extinction, it illustrates the general tragedy of the human condition through a particularized instance. A book of near despair, yet dignified."
Library Journal

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ISBN-10: 0394728998
ISBN-13: 9780394728995
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publish Date: 02/12/1985
Dimensions: 8.02" L, 5.06" W, 0.31" H
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