A Transatlantic Love Affair Letters to Nelson Algren by De Beauvoir, Simone & Ellen Gordon Reeves - 1998

New Press, The. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New Press, The. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New Press, The, 1998. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New Press, The, 1998. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New Press, 1998-09. Hardcover. Good.

New York: The New Press, 1997. (1997), 559pp, illus., some shelfwear to cover, a few pgs w/ slightly turned corners.. Trade Paperback. Very Good -/No Jacket.

New York: The New Press, 1997. Large trade paperback. 559pp., Illustrated with photographs. First softcover edition, first printing with number line intact on copyright page. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, tightly bound copy. Near fine.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York. 1998. New Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 156584422x. 559 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by BAD. keywords: Autobiography Literature France. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nelson Algren in Chicago, and it was love at first sight. A passionate affair ensued, spanning 20 years and four continents in an era when a transatlantic flight took 24 hours and overseas telephone calls were a luxury. A TRANSATLANTIC LOVE AFFAIR collects the more than 300 love letters written in English by de Beauvoir to Algren. Unique among the prolific correspondence de Beauvoir conducted throughout her life, these letters involved someone not at all of her world. De Beauvoir was forced to explain to Algren everything that usually went without saying: her background, her life in Paris, and the political situation in Paris. The result is a cross between a personal memoir and an insider's intellectual history of Left Bank life in postwar Paris,… Read More

NY: NEW PRESS. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. first edition,1p; 987654321pt line. HARDCOVER. 9.1 X 5.8 X 2.0 inches. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S27.50) DUST JACKET; RED titles on BLUE hard covers. Algren & Simone photos on blue DUST JACKET.. ; Glossy photo sections; 559 pages; French Author... Simone de Beauvoir's legendary autobiography presents Beauvoir at the height of her international fame and portrays her inner struggle with aging. Beauvoir recounts her difficult long-distance romance with novelist Nelson Algren and her involvement with Claude Lanzmann (the future director of . She also vividly describes her travels with Sartre to Brazil and Cuba, reveals her private sense of despair in reaction to French atrocities in Algeria, and confronts her own deepening depression. .

NY: The New Press, 1988. First Edition. . Hardcover. As New/As New. First printing. As new, perfect. From the library of noted Canadian writer and bookseller Greg Gatenby, with his signature and date on the flyleaf. (box 168)