The Prime of Life Author:Simone de Beauvoir The woman behind "The Second Sex" — In this most important volume of Simone de Beauvoir's autobiography, she deals with her coming of age--as a woman, as a writer, and as a shaper of modern feminism. She writes of her relationship with Jean-Pal Sartre, of her moral and political growth during the war in Europe, of the people who most closely touc... more »hed her life, affecting and changing her understanding of herself as a woman, and of the world around her. This unflinchingly honest self-portrait is all the more significant today in the age of growing women's consciousness.« less