A Very Easy Death (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)
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ISBN: 0394728998 / Publisher: Pantheon, February 1985
The French writer depicts the sorrow and pain and her quiet acceptance of her mother's last days before death from cancer
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A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence” (The Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this is an end-of-life account that no reader is likely to forget.Translated by Patrick O'Brian
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