Author(s): Simone de Beauvoir

Biography & Memoir

"A Very Easy Death "has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death "shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence" ("The Sunday Telegraph").
Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this is an end-of-life account that no reader is likely to forget.