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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781860490026

Price: £14.99

ON SALE: 5th June 2003

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Classic Fiction (pre C 1945)

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‘A writer whose tears for her characters freeze as they drop’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Vivid and moving and in combination with the existentialist panorama of history make the book well worth reading’ KIRKUS REVIEWS


‘Simone de Beauvoir has the true novelist’s gift’ A. S. BYATT

When the beautiful, ambitious actress Regina takes Fosca into her life and learns his amazing truth, she is obsessed with the thought that in his memory her performances will live forever. But, as he recounts the story of his existence over more than six centuries, she learns of his involvement in some of the most significant events in history and how his humanity has withered away. Regina finally understands the implications for him to hope and love.

All Men Are Mortal was adapted into a film released in 1994, starring Irene Jacob, Marianne Sagebrecht and Stephen Rea.

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Vivid and moving and in combination with the existentialist panorama of history make the book well worth reading
Kirkus Reviews
Probably de Beauvoir's strangest and most compelling novel
Ingrams
Simone de Beauvoir has the true novelist's gift of selecting detail and creating individuals whilst refusing to sum up situations
A. S. Byatt
Probably de Beauvoir's strangest and most compelling novel
Ingrams
Simone de Beauvoir is a writer whose every work I pounce on eagerly - her vision is so wide, the tale she tells is so interesting, her characterisation so psychologically profound
Yorkshire Post
A writer whose tears for her characters freeze as they drop
Sunday Times
A writer whose tears for her characters freeze as they drop
Sunday Times