A Very Easy Death: A Memoir,Used Hickey ' Said Orville Prescott In

' Said Orville Prescott In The New York Times

This Work Was Awarded The Sorokin Prize By The American Sociological Association As The Book That Made An Outstanding Contribution To The Progress Of Sociology In 1970

The Poems Suggesting The Bitter Corruptions And Disillusionment That Await The Innocent

Escaping Her Own Memories Of Loss And Carnage To Find A Measure Of Atonement

Such As 'Your Word Is Everything

A Very Easy Death: A Memoir,Used Hickey ' Said Orville Prescott InA Very Easy Death Has Long Been Considered One Of Simone De Beauvoirs Masterpieces. The Profoundly Moving, Daybyday Recounting Of Her Mothers Death Shows The Power Of Compassion When It Is Allied With Acute Intelligence (The Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, Touching, And Sometimes Shocking, This Is An Endoflife Account That No Reader Is Likely To Forget. Translated By Patrick O'Brian