The Woman Destroyed

First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women''s vulnerability - in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one.THE WOMAN DESTROYED is a collection of three stories, each an exquisite and passionate study of a woman trapped by circumstances, trying to rebuild her life.In the first story, -The Age of Discretion-, a successful scholar fast approaching middle age faces a double shock - her son-s abandonment of the career she has chosen for him and the harsh critical rejection of her latest academic work. -The Monologue- is an extraordinary New Year-s Eve outpouring of invective from a woman consumed with bitterness and loneliness after her son and her husband have left home. Finally, in -The Woman Destroyed-, Simone de Beauvoir tells the story of Monique, trying desperately to resurrect her life after her husband confesses to an affair with a younger woman.Compas