Female Relationships
Stephen Bann, 1 July 1982
When things of the spirit come first
by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Patrick O’Brian.
Deutsch, 212 pp., £6.95, July 1982,0 233 97462 8 Show More
by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Patrick O’Brian.
Deutsch, 212 pp., £6.95, July 1982,
“... so, in their differing ways, are the three novels which will occupy the remainder of this review. Hilma Wolitzer’s Hearts could be described, on one level, as an attempt to retell the Lolita story, with the important reservation that this time it is a stepmother, rather than a stepfather, who takes charge of the glamorous yet inaccessible teenage ... ”
