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      Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me – a Memoir

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      Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants.

      A The Times & Sunday Times Literary Nonfiction Book of the Year<b...

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      Product ID:9781786492685
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Parisian Lives
      Subtitle:Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me – a Memoir
      Authors:Author: Deirdre Bair
      Page Count:368
      Subjects:Biography: writers, Biography: literary, Memoirs, Memoirs, 20th century
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants.

      A The Times & Sunday Times Literary Nonfiction Book of the Year

      ''Fascinating... Wonderfully entertaining and absorbing'' Sunday Times


      ''Gripping...
      A story well told.'' New York Times Book Review

      Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2020

      In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist with a recently acquired PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written - or even read - a biography herself. The next seven years of intimate conversations, intercontinental research, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games resulted in Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Deirdre to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. The catch? De Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other - and lived essentially on the same street. While quite literally dodging one subject or the other, and sometimes hiding out in the backrooms of the great cafés of Paris, Bair learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next. Her seven-year relationship with the domineering and difficult de Beauvoir required a radical change in approach, yielding another groundbreaking literary profile.

      Drawing on Bair''s extensive notes from the period, including never-before-told anecdotes and details that were considered impossible to publish at the time, Parisian Lives is full of personality and warmth and gives us an entirely new window on the all-too-human side of these legendary thinkers.


      Imprint Name:Atlantic Books
      Publisher Name:Atlantic Books
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2021-02-04

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      Weight346 g
      Dimensions129 × 199 × 34 mm