Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone De Beauvoir and Me : A Memoir
In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written - or even read - a biography herself. The next seven years of intimate conversations, intercontinental research, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games resulted in Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Deirdre to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. The catch? De Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other - and lived essentially on the same street. While quite literally dodging one subject or the other, and sometimes hiding out in the backrooms of the great cafes of Paris, Bair learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next.
347 pages, 7 editions
English edition · First published 2019 by Atlantic Books · ISBN 9781786492654
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English
- Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone De Beauvoir and Me : A Memoir · Atlantic Books · 2020 · ISBN 9781786492654 This page
- Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone De Beauvoir and Me : A Memoir · Atlantic Books · 2021 · ISBN 9781786492685
- Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone De Beauvoir and Me : A Memoir · Atlantic Books · 2020 · ISBN 9781786492678
- Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone De Beauvoir and Me : A Memoir · Atlantic Books · 2020 · ISBN 9781786492661
- Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone De Beauvoir, and Me : A Memoir · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday · 2019 · ISBN 9780525432906
- Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone De Beauvoir, and Me : A Memoir · Nan A. Talese / Doubleday · 2019 · ISBN 9780385542463
- Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone De Beauvoir, and Me : A Memoir · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday · 2019 · ISBN 9780385542456
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