Description
Perhaps Colette's best-known work, "Gigi" is the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned with success and money than with the desires of the heart. But Gigi is uninterested in the dishonest society life she observes all around her and remains exasperatingly Gigi. The tale of Gigi's success in spite of her anxious family is Colette at her liveliest and most entertaining. Written during the same period as "Gigi, "Julie de Carneilhan," based on Colette's last years with her second husband, focuses on a contest of wills between Julie, an elegant woman of forty, and her ex-husband. "Chance Acquaintances," a novella, involves an invalid wife, her philandering husband, and a music-hall dancer whose odd meeting at a French spa affects and indelibly marks each one of their lives.
Info
ISBN: 9780374527853
Published Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Language: English
Page Count: 309
Size: 8.24" l x 5.55" w x 0.97" h
Category
Fiction
Subject
Classics