On a visit to America in 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met the left-wing writer Nelson Algren and an intense, transatlantic love affair began. The couple met only once or twice a year, but between liaisons, de Beauvoir wrote Algren hundreds of letters; these letters are reproduced here.
- ISBN10 0753808404
- ISBN13 9780753808405
- Publish Date 22 July 1999 (first published 6 August 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 592
- Language English