"Cheri" is one of the most honest, sensual, and poignant breakup stories ever written. First published in 1920, it was instantly greeted by Marcel Proust and Andre Gide as a masterpiece and today remains Colette's most admired work. Lea de Lonval is an aging courtesan, a once famous beauty facing the end of her sexual career. She is also facing the end of her most intense love affair, with Fred Peloux--known as Cheri--a playboy half her age. But neither lover under-stands how deeply they are attached, or how much life they ...
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"Cheri" is one of the most honest, sensual, and poignant breakup stories ever written. First published in 1920, it was instantly greeted by Marcel Proust and Andre Gide as a masterpiece and today remains Colette's most admired work. Lea de Lonval is an aging courtesan, a once famous beauty facing the end of her sexual career. She is also facing the end of her most intense love affair, with Fred Peloux--known as Cheri--a playboy half her age. But neither lover under-stands how deeply they are attached, or how much life they will give up by parting ways. A classic portrait of French manners before World War I, "Cheri "also captures a lasting truth about the connections between sex, love, and feelings of mortality. This new edition includes "The Last of Cheri," an epilogue in which Colette depicts Paris reeling in the aftermath of war, at the start of the Roaring Twenties.
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Very good. corners of cover worn, a few abrasions on cover, cover soiled a bit and slightly faded, pages faded. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 304 p.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very Good. GREAT BOOK! MODERATE WEAR, CORNER BENDS & FAINT SPINE CREASES ON WHITE COVER. LIGHTLY AGED PAGES, NO MARKS IN TEXT. Review: ""Everything 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 to grandeur."" The Times ""Chéri is her masterpiece. Michael Straight, The New Republic """"Dramatic and moving...[Chéri] endears itself to the reader partly because of its subject, but more because of the manner of its telling."""" The New York Times""
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Good. Softcover, in Good condition, there are no stamps writing or marks, some discoloration along the spine from sunlight, straight spine, solid binding, clean unmarked pages, a nice reading copy,