"One of the most acute and thoughtful achievements of French fiction at mid-century." — New York Times Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge,
She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Françoise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xavière catches his attention. The moody young woman from the countryside pries her way between Françoise and Pierre, playing up to each one and deviously pulling them apart, until the only way out of the triangle is destruction.
"Behind the sympathy there is curiosity. . . . A writer whose tears for her characters freeze as they drop." — Sunday London Times
Simone de Beauvoir is the author of the landmark feminist work The Second Sex, as well as numerous other fiction and nonfiction books.
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