A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

1998. Beauvoir, Simone de; Algren, Nelson. A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren. New York: The New Press, 1998. 559 pp., illustrations. Publisher's original hardcover, with red stamped spine. Light wear to spine ends, else very good. In a near fine dust jacket. $35. * "While [Simone de Beauvoir] gave all her talks and interviews in the United States in fluent English, she spoke with a thick French accent. She later credited her written fluency to her long correspondence with Algren." Editor's Note, p.5.