The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir, 1969 Putnam, first US edition, 254 pages. The precursor to for Ferrante's Days of Abandonment.

Condition: Good+/VG. Chips and shelf wear to jacket, still bright, some wear to the boards, pencil mark on the end paper.

"Think of something else---anything else: think of yesterday, a calm, ordinary, easy-flowing day, in spite of the nervous tension of waiting."