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The Image of Her

The Image of Her

de Beauvoir, Simone
Elkin, Lauren

Paperback

Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters

Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date May 4, 2027

ISBN10: 0300322909
ISBN13: 9780300322903
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: May 4 2027
Pages: 208
Language: English
Simone de Beauvoir's gripping classic of a woman striving for perfection

Laurence lives what appears to be an ideal existence. Her life features the trappings of 1960s Parisian bourgeoisie: money, a handsome husband, two daughters, and a lover. She also has a successful career as an advertising copywriter, though she can't stop thinking about work while she's at home and she dreams of domesticity while at the office. But Laurence gave up on happiness long ago, choosing instead to manifest the perfect image of wife, mother, daughter, homemaker, and career woman. It is only when she is relentlessly torn by the competing needs of her family and jarred into recognition of her own predicament by the despair of her ten-year-old daughter, Catherine, that Laurence begins to resist the hand she has been dealt.

The Image of Her, the 1966 final novel by Simone de Beauvoir, freshly translated here by Lauren Elkin, is rooted in the feminist revolutions of its era, yet it remains a strikingly relevant confrontation with the limits that society places on women and their power.

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