An intimate, personal, and honest portrait of a relationship unlike any other in literary history. Deirdre Bair, The Philadelphia Inquirer [A] portrait of a deep love between two people who lead separate lives. Of all the many interviews Sartre gave in his life, this is perhaps the clearest. Richard Sennett An expression of [de Beauvoir s] unquenchable loyalty and devotion, her sense of the sheer importance of the man, Sartre, le maitre. Elizabeth Hardwick