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It's a review of a book that is crammed with adulteries, alcoholism, betrayals, broken friendships, deportations, deprivation, drug addiction, executions, humiliation, illicit abortions, imprisonment, murder, Nazi atrocities, starvation, torture chambers, treason and worse.

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.. are we reading the same review? The one I'm reading talks about the literary scene and the importance of Beauvoir quite a lot.

The comment you replied to was literally a copy and paste of almost all of the first paragraph.

So with life in the 30's and 40s? And in lots of parts of the world, still.

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