Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

<p><strong>A book that will leave no one indifferent and no one affected in quite the same way. --<em>New York Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century</strong></p><p>Simone de Beauvoir's <em>Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter</em> offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.</p><p>Beauvoir vividly evokes her friendships love interests mentors and the early days of the most important relationship of her life with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.</p>