Retreat from Love (Paperback, 1st Harvest/HBJ ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	HarperPerennial
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Harvest HBJ/Book
Release date:	March 1980
First published:	March 1980
Authors:	Colette Willy
Dimensions:	202 x 135 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	240
Edition:	1st Harvest/HBJ ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-15-676588-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-15-676588-8
Barcode:	9780156765886

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