In three powerful, unflinching stories, Simone de Beauvoir explores the unraveling of identity, love, and purpose in the lives of women past their first youth—women who once believed they had everything figured out.
In The Age of Discretion, a respected intellectual faces the pain of aging and irrelevance. The Monologue plunges us into the furious, unfiltered thoughts of a woman consumed by betrayal. The Woman Destroyed tells of a wife whose seemingly perfect marriage is shattered by unexpected loss.
With sharp wit and unsparing honesty, de Beauvoir captures the fragility of passion and the slow, painful realization that nothing lasts forever. The Woman Destroyed is an essential, thought-provoking read from one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century.
