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A Very Easy Death
- Form
- Form Memoir
- Year
- Year 1964
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 110
Her mother slipped in the bathroom and broke a femur, and what the surgeons found while they were repairing it was a cancer nobody would name aloud. For six weeks Simone de Beauvoir sat by a bed in a Paris clinic and watched a woman she had spent decades holding at arm's length become, hour by hour, unbearably dear to her.
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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