The Image of Her
Laurence lives what looks like an ideal life among the 1960s Parisian bourgeoisie: money, a handsome husband, two daughters, a lover, and a successful career as an advertising copywriter. She gave up on happiness long ago in favor of the perfect image of wife, mother, daughter, homemaker and career woman. It is only when her ten-year-old daughter's despair jars her into seeing her own predicament that Laurence begins to resist the hand she has been dealt. Beauvoir's final novel (1966), freshly translated by Lauren Elkin.
A Weekly Reads pick. Slim, sharp and still current about the limits society places on women. On the Atlas in Paris.
On the Atlas: Paris in the 1960s, among the Parisian bourgeoisie →
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