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The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre

They are one of the world's legendary couples.

Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre - those passionate, free-thinking Existentialist philosopher-writers - had a committed but notoriously open union that generated no end of controversy.

Through original interviews and access to new primary sources, Hazel Rowley portrays them up close: their romantic entanglements, their Parisian café society circle, their discussions of each other's work.

Theirs is a great story - and a great story is precisely what they most wanted their lives to be.