Readers will be glad they pursued an unusual woman's intellectual and personal journey."- Booklist "Thoughtful, gracefully written reflections. "An engaging autobiography that spans not only self-identified period of 'flourishing' but virtually all the twentieth century."- Library Journal "An intimate record of our times and of the ongoing issues that challenge us to define ourselves over and over again."- Kirkus Reviews Transcending the personal details of her life, Barnes' memoir stands as an important contribution to the intellectual history of our century. Barnes has written an autobiography that is both the success story of a professional woman as well as a profoundly moving reflection on growing older. Best known as the writer who introduced French existentialism to English-speaking readers through her translation of Sartre's Being and Nothingness, Hazel E.
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