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A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate, and sometimes-painful story of how two brilliant freethinkers, lovers, and rivals came to share a relationship that lasted more than 50 years. This is the first dual biography of Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sarte.
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Traces the more than fifty-year friendship shared by the writing-philosophy duo, describing how their romance was shaped by evolving modes of thought and sexual experimentation as well as Sartre's alcoholism, DeBeauvoir's lesbianism, and their controversial political affiliations. By the Samuel Johnson-shortlisted author of Painted Shadow.
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