The Image of Her

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Beschreibung

<p><b>She's living a perfect life - so why does Laurence feel so torn?</b><br><br>Weekends in the country, weekdays in Paris - Laurence's life features all the trappings of 1960s French bourgeoisie. She has money, a handsome husband, two daughters and a lover. She also has a successful career as an advertising copywriter, though her mind writes copy while she's at home, and dreams of domesticity in the office.<br><br>All her life she has strived to meet the expectations of others. But when her 10-year-old daughter, Catherine, starts to vocalise her despair about the unfairness of the world, Laurence must finally grapple with a life that prizes image over truth.<br><br><b>Slim but powerful, this is a classic story of womanhood and its oppressors, parents and their children, and the quest for personal truth - by the iconic feminist Simone de Beauvoir.</b><br><br><b>'The best book I've read so far this year' <i>The Times</i><br><br>'Beautifully written, what surprises is how very modern this feminist rite of passage feels' <i>Daily Mail</i><br><br>'A lethally moving portrait of female alienation and resistance' Adam Thirlwell<br><br>TRANSLATED BY LAUREN ELKIN</b><br><br><b>Praise for <i>The Inseparables</i>:</b><br><br>'Passionate and tragic' <i>Vanity Fair</i><br><br>'A ravishing work of art' <i>Financial Times</i><br><br>'Slim, elegant, achingly tragic and unaffectedly lovely in its evocation of the closeness between girls - and the pressures that sunder them' <i>Spectator</i><br><br>'In Lauren Elkin's fine translation, the lucid, sculpted prose can flare into starbursts of introspective sensuality... Beauvoir could write like a dutiful daughter of the French classics' <i>The Times</i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781784879891

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 131 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd