The Image of Her by Beauvoir, Simone De
The Image of Her by Beauvoir, Simone De

The Image of Her

Simone de Beauvoir's gripping classic of a woman striving for perfection Laurence lives what appears to be...
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Author: Simone De Beauvoir
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Image of Her by Beauvoir, Simone De

The Image of Her

$89.99 $50.00
The Image of Her by Beauvoir, Simone De

The Image of Her

$89.99 $50.00
Author: Simone De Beauvoir
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Simone de Beauvoir's gripping classic of a woman striving for perfection

Laurence lives what appears to be an ideal existence. Her life features the trappings of 1960s Parisian bourgeoisie: money, a handsome husband, two daughters, and a lover. She also has a successful career as an advertising copywriter, though she can't stop thinking about work while she's at home and she dreams of domesticity while at the office. But Laurence gave up on happiness long ago, choosing instead to manifest the perfect image of wife, mother, daughter, homemaker, and career woman. It is only when she is relentlessly torn by the competing needs of her family and jarred into recognition of her own predicament by the despair of her ten-year-old daughter, Catherine, that Laurence begins to resist the hand she has been dealt.

The Image of Her, the 1966 final novel by Simone de Beauvoir, freshly translated here by Lauren Elkin, is rooted in the feminist revolutions of its era, yet it remains a strikingly relevant confrontation with the limits that society places on women and their power.

Author: Simone De Beauvoir,Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 01/13/2026
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.60w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780300287172


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2026

About the Author
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) was a philosopher, novelist, feminist, public intellectual, activist, and one of the major figures in existentialism in postwar France. Her works include The Second Sex, She Came to Stay, and The Coming of Age. Lauren Elkin, an award-winning French and American writer and translator, is the author of Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art and Scaffolding. Her numerous translations from the French include Beauvoir's The Inseparables and works by Claude Arnaud, Michelle Perrot, and Lola Lafon.
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