A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir (Fitzcarraldo Editions) record Publish Date: Jan 2023

Publish Date: Jan 2023

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A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir (Fitzcarraldo Editions) record Publish Date: Jan 2023Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoirs masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day by day recounting of her mothers final days after she is hospitalized following a fall. Though a devout Catholic, her faith is subsumed by her terror of death, and as her body fails, she clings to life with fierce, primal desperation. In depicting her mothers refusal to go gentle while her autonomy and dignity are taken from her, Simone de