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Two volumes of Colette''s most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.

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.

Gigi Julie de Carneilhan and Chance Acquaintances

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    A Paperback / softback by Colette, Roger Senhouse, Judith Thurman

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Publication Date: 10/10/2001
      ISBN13: 9780374527853, 978-0374527853
      ISBN10: 0374527857
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Two volumes of Colette''s most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.

      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.

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