TY - BOOK AU - Beauvoir,Simone de AU - Smith,Sandra AU - Atwood,Margaret AU - Le Bon de Beauvoir,Sylvie AU - Lacoin,Elisabeth AU - Beauvoir,Simone de TI - Inseparable: a never-before-published novel SN - 9780063075047 PY - 2021///] CY - New York, NY PB - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers KW - Lacoin, Elisabeth, KW - Beauvoir, Simone de, KW - Women KW - France KW - Fiction KW - Girls KW - Friendship KW - Female friendship KW - Intellectual life KW - Paris (France) KW - Bildungsromans KW - lcgft KW - Domestic fiction KW - Autobiographical fiction N1 - "Originally published as Les inséparables in France in 2020 by Éditions de L'Herne."--Title page verso; Introduction / by Margaret Atwood -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Afterword / by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir -- Selected letters between Simone de Beauvoir and Élisabeth "Zaza" Lacoin, 1920-1929 N2 - From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of friends and confidantes as they explore life in a post-World War One France, and as Andrée becomes increasingly reckless and rebellious, edging closer to peril ER -