A Very Easy Death: A Memoir (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)
<p><i>A Very Easy Death </i>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†(<i>The Sunday Telegraph</i>).<br> <br>Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this is an end-of-life account that no reader is likely to forget.</p>