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| She Came to Stay (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Simone De Beauvoir
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 14079
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0007204647
EAN: 9780007204649
ASIN: 0007204647
Publication Date: January 16, 2006
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Morally Ambiguous February 5, 2002
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you enjoyed Jean Paul Sartre's "Roads
To Freedom" existentialist novels, then
this book will also prove absorbing. The last
third seems to bring new depths and developments
to the characters and their situations and
it's almost like the reading equivalent of
peeling the onion. The way that France's
involvement with the Second World War
begins to permeate the idyllic (on the surface)
cafe lifestyle of Paris, more and more as
the book goes on is impressive. The ending
of the book is both grim and fascinating.
Depending on how you interpret it, it's
either a deeply disturbing and ugly end
to what's went before or it's a blackly
comic act of literary revenge/exorcism.
Dark, dazzling and infuriating. October 25, 2000
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
A menage a trois that is saturated with a bitter, disturbing jealousy. A beautiful narrative that weaves a web of assignations, petty truculence and ambiguous passion. Set in Paris Simone de Beauvoir captures the essence of the city & imbues it with the necessary haze of alcohol, smoke and sadness to set the scene for the ensuing nightmare of recriminations. De Beauvoir's characters are painstakingly depicted, each permeated with thier own aura of mystery and banality. A brilliant story, boldy told.
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