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A Transatlantic Love Affaire. Letters to Nelson Algren
A Transatlantic Love Affaire Letters to Nelson Algren Author:Simone de Beauvoir, Nelson Algren, Sylvie Le Bon De Beauvoir, Ellen Gordon Reeves, Vanessa Kling When Simone de Beauvoir met Nelson Algren in 1947, it was love at first sight. Their passionate affair spanned twenty years and four continents. A Transatlantic Love Affair collects the more than three hundred love letters written by de Beauvoir to Algren, creating a unique cross between a personal memoir and an insider's intellectual history of... more » Left Bank life post-war Paris. Penned as she was writing The Mandarins, America Day by Day, and the Second Sex, the letters provide a new backdrop for those classic works and reveal an unusual portrait of "The Second Simone"« less