{"product_id":"cheri-9780099422761","title":"Cheri","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vivid, believable love story between an older woman and a younger man.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLéa 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 Chéri  a playboy half her age. When an advantageous marriage is arranged for Chéri, Léa 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1920, it was instantly greeted by Marcel Proust and André Gide as a masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI devoured \u003ci\u003eChéri\u003c\/i\u003e at a gulp. What a wonderful subject and with what intelligence, mastery and understanding of the least-admitted secrets of the flesh' André Gide\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColette 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 * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eHer writing is as sensuous and acute as it is unsentimental... Very beautiful and subtle... I feel more alive when I read her -- Helen Simpson * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eEverything 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 *\u003cbr\u003eSumptuous * Time *\u003cbr\u003eA perfectionist in her every word * Spectator *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732220981591,"sku":"9780099422761","price":8.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099422761.jpg?v=1719996023","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cheri-9780099422761","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}