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A review by reasie
Les belles images by Simone de Beauvoir
5.0
It took me a bit to get into it, because the author switches freely between first and third person and it took a chapter to realize that Laurence was “I” and it took a few lines to realize Laurence was female, because the name is male in English. (We love reversing genders on French names, don’t we, Michelle?)
Anyway - love love loved it. Real deep, earnest, true stuff in here about life, death, the unfairness of both, and the tenderness of growing up. Not bad fora novel essentially about an upper-middle-class woman having an existential crisis.
Anyway - love love loved it. Real deep, earnest, true stuff in here about life, death, the unfairness of both, and the tenderness of growing up. Not bad fora novel essentially about an upper-middle-class woman having an existential crisis.