TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beauvoir,Simone de
AU  - O'Brian, Patrick,
TI  - The woman destroyed
T2  - Pantheon modern writers series
SN  - 9780394711034 (pbk.)
U1  - 843.914 BEA 23
PY  - 1969///.
CY  - New York
PB  - Pantheon Books
KW  - French fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - Middle-aged women
KW  - France
KW  - Fiction.
KW  - Mentally ill women
KW  - Novels.
KW  - Translations.
N1  - Translation of La femme rompue.; The age of discretion -- Monologue -- The woman destroyed.
N2  - 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 increasingly distressed by her son's absorption in his young wife and her worldly values.  In "The Monologue," a rich, spoiled woman, home alone on New Year's Eve, pours out a lifetime's rage and frustration in a harrowing diatribe.  Enthralling as fiction, suffused with de Beauvoir's remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best.  Three long stories that draw the reader into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises
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