Simone de Beauvoir
Subtitle: A Biography
Edition: 1st Touchstone Ed edition
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: August 15, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 718
ISBN-13: 9780671741808
Subjects: Biography: general; Philosophers; Feminists; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Literary; Biography/Autobiography; Historical - General; France; Women; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Biography & Autobiography : Philosophers; Biography & Autobiography : Women; Women authors, French; Biography; 20th century; Authors, French; French authors
First sentence: HER EARLIEST MEMORIES were so closely linked to the color black that, throughout her life, whenever something of her childhood came to mind unbidden she often had the sensation of being smothered in blackness.