Simone de Beauvoir

A great living document of America in the forties

Scotsman

Her travel diary records with fresh, hungry, sensuous curiosity the cultural climate of postwar America just before the Cold War closed down. No writer could be better company in that complex, vanished world than Si ...

Diane Middlebrook

Simone de Beauvoir in New York City in 1947: Like all Europeans she begins to lament the obvious the hard edges, the crude self-involvement, the absence of café life and then suddenly she gives herself up to the alo ...

Vivian Gornick

Her travel diary records with fresh, hungry, sensuous curiosity the cultural climate of postwar America just before the Cold War closed down. No writer could be better company in that complex, vanished world than Si ...

Diane Middlebrook

Simone de Beauvoir in New York City in 1947: Like all Europeans she begins to lament the obvious the hard edges, the crude self-involvement, the absence of café life and then suddenly she gives herself up to the alo ...

Vivian Gornick

A great living document of America in the forties

Scotsman

Her travel diary records with fresh, hungry, sensuous curiosity the cultural climate of postwar America just before the Cold War closed down. No writer could be better company in that complex, vanished world than Si ...

Diane Middlebrook

Simone de Beauvoir in New York City in 1947: Like all Europeans she begins to lament the obvious the hard edges, the crude self-involvement, the absence of café life and then suddenly she gives herself up to the alo ...

Vivian Gornick