Les belles images / Simone de Beauvoir ; translated by Patrick O'Brian.
"In this new novel Simone de Beauvoir presents us with a group of people from the very milieu which she has always most earnestly despised. Rich, clever, well-connected and superficially cultured, they preen their perfect images in the mirror of success, anxious above all to avoid unpleasantnes...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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London :
Collins,
1968.
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| Series: | Fontana modern novels series ;
3597. |
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| Summary: | "In this new novel Simone de Beauvoir presents us with a group of people from the very milieu which she has always most earnestly despised. Rich, clever, well-connected and superficially cultured, they preen their perfect images in the mirror of success, anxious above all to avoid unpleasantness of any kind entering their lives. What happens when the image is broken, the pretty picture destroyed by a child's insistent questions: why do people live - why, above all, do unhappy people live?"--Book jacket. |
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| Item Description: | First published in France by Editions Gallimard under the title 'Les Belles Images'. |
| Physical Description: | 222 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0006135978 9780006135975 |