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Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette

Thurman, Judith

Paperback

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ISBN10: 0345371038
ISBN13: 9780345371034
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Oct 31 2000
Pages: 672
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
A dazzling biography of the French literary superstar Colette, who is also the subject of a major motion picture.

A fine and intelligent biography of Colette, with her long tumultuous life and the great body of her work scrupulously considered and presented with style.--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK AWARD - NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

Having spent her childhood in the shadow of an overpowering mother, Colette escaped at age twenty into a turbulent marriage with the sexy, unscrupulous Willy--a literary charlatan who took credit for her bestselling Claudine novels. Weary of Willy's sexual domination, Colette pursued an extremely public lesbian love affair with a niece of Napoleon's. At forty, she gave birth to a daughter who bored her, at forty-seven she seduced her teenage stepson, and in her seventies she contributed to the pro-Nazi press during the Occupation, even though her beloved third husband, a Jew, had been arrested by the Gestapo. And all the while, this incomparable woman poured forth a torrent of masterpieces, including Gigi, Sido, Cheri, and Break of Day.

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