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

by Deirdre Bair

Book Overview

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

National Book 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 and revealing secrets of the biographical art.

In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and a recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385542453
• ISBN13: 9780385542456
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Nan A. Talese
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"