A vivid,believable love story between an older woman and a younger man.
Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted the last six years to the amorous education of the exquisitely handsome and spoilt Cheri - a playboy half her age. When an advantageous marriage is arranged for Cheri,Lea reluctantly decides their relationship must end. But neither lover can foresee how deeply they are connected,or how much they will have to give up.
First published in 1920,it was instantly greeted by Marcel Proust and Andre Gide as a masterpiece.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099422761Number of pages: 128Weight: 96 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 7 mm
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'Colette is a kind of corsetiere of love. This most French of all French writers tells us how love sometimes binds and keeps a woman from breathing freely or how it may shape and support her and help her to be beautiful...One thinks of her as the female voice of Paris...It's as if all the house fronts of Paris were cut away and we could see men and women talking,dressing,brooding,loving.'- Anatole Broyard,New York Times
'Everything that Colette touched became human... She was a complete sensualist; but she gave herself up to her senses with such delicacy of perception,with such exquisiteness of physical pain as well as physical ecstasy,that she ennobled sensualism almost to grandeur.'- The Times
'Sumptuous.'- Time
'A perfectionist in her every word.'- Spectator
'Her sensual prose style made her one of the great writers of twentieth-century France.'- New York Times
Colette
One of France's greatest writers,Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was a pioneer of female emancipation,bisexuality and literary invention whose daring and experimental fiction explores themes of love and sensual and sexual freedom. Her best-known works include the Claudine quartet Chéri,Le Blé en herbe and Gigi.
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