She Came to Stay

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Flamingo, 1995 - Fiction - 409 pages
"It has always been unthinkable that Pierre and François should ever stop loving one another. And yet, talented and restless, they constantly feel the need for new sensations and new people. It is because of this that the young and beautiful Xavière enters their lives: ambitious and irresponsible, she is determined to drive a wedge between them."--Provided by publisher.

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Section 2
10
Section 3
31
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About the author (1995)

Simon de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. A close friend of the writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Satre, and well-known as a leader of the Existentialist movement in Paris, her novels have won wide acclaim throughout the world. Her famous work, The Second Sex, was hailed as a landmark study of women, and her novels, including The Woman Destroyed and She Came to Stay, have become well-loved classics. She died in 1968.

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