A memoir of a mother’s final days
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A memoir of a mother’s final days
Simone de Beauvoir’s memoir recounts her mother’s death day by day, placing a family experience at the center of an account of dying. Its close focus on this period gives the book a clear scope: it follows the unfolding of a death rather than surveying a life in full. The subject brings together the intimate bond between mother and daughter and the practical and personal realities of an end-of-life experience. The edition is translated by Patrick O’Brian.
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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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