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Retreat from love / by Colette ; translated from the French and with an introd. by Margaret Crosland.
LIBRA PQ2605.O28 R3613 1980 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Colette, 1873-1954.
- Series:
- Harvest/HBJ book
- A Harvest HBJ/book
- Standardized Title:
- Retraite sentimentale. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- France--Fiction.
- France.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 226 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Harvest/HBJ edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.
- Summary:
- In an isolated farmhouse in the Jura, Claudine awaits her husband Renaud's return from a Swiss sanatorium. She distracts herself by encouraging her young friend Annie to recount salacious episodes from her love life. When Renaud's homosexual son Marcel arrives, Claudine sets about matchmaking, a fiasco she bitterly regrets. With Renaud's death, Claudine's ennui is transmuted into resigned suffering. But she gradually allows the rhythm and beauty of the natural world to reawaken her desire to live. Retreat From Love, first published in 1907, was the first of Colette's novels to be written without the collaboration of her husband 'Willy', from whom she had recently separated.
- Notes:
- Translation of La retraite sentimentale.
- Reprint of the ed. published by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis.
- ISBN:
- 0156765888
- 9780156765886
- OCLC:
- 5333767
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- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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