Biography, January 1st, 2006
Beauvoir, Simone de, and Jean-Paul Sartre Tete-a-tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. Hazel Rowley. New York: HarperCollins, 2005; Paris: Grasset, 2006. 416 pp. $26.95.
"While Rowley's book is fair, straightforwardly written, and deserves a spot on the creaking shelf of Sartre-de Beauvoir literature, the focus on the romantic shenanigans wears thin. It sometimes goes beyond juicy to creepy. And their ideas get short shrift: she devotes less than a page to The Second Sex. Of course, other books have covered the couple's intellectual life ad nauseam, but if the goal of this portrait...
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