{"product_id":"tete-a-tete-the-tumultuous-lives-and-loves-of-simone-de-beauvoir-and-jean-paul-sartre-9780060520601","title":"Tete-A-Tete: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Enthralling . . . Here we find an ugly, walleyed existentialist philosopher, the elegantly beautiful author of \u003cem\u003eThe Second Sex\u003c\/em\u003e and the Gallic equivalent of a bevy of young starlets who share the bed of one or the other--or sometimes both. Readers will turn these pages alternately mesmerized and appalled.\" -- Michael Dirda, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePassionate, freethinking existentialist philosopher-writers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre are one of the world's legendary couples. Their committed but notoriously open union generated no end of controversy in their day. Biographer Hazel Rowley offers the first dual portrait of these two colossal figures and their intense, often embattled relationship. Through original interviews and access to new primary sources, Rowley portrays Sartre and Beauvoir up close.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTête-à-Tête magnificently details the passion, daring, humor, and contradictions of a remarkably unorthodox relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hazel Rowley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.82h x 5.68w x 1.12d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060520601\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/19\/2006 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2007 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRowley, Hazel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHazel Rowley is the author of two previous books: \u003cem\u003eChristina Stead: A Biography\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRichard Wright: The Life And Times\u003c\/em\u003e. She has been a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow and a Bunting Institute Fellow at Radcliffe College, and has taught at the University of Iowa and at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. She lives in New York and Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43097870827635,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_36eb63a9-9fbe-4efb-a554-e1337c5d3751.jpg?v=1748616188","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/tete-a-tete-the-tumultuous-lives-and-loves-of-simone-de-beauvoir-and-jean-paul-sartre-9780060520601","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}