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Gigi
by Colette
- Used
- Good
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0146001133
- ISBN 13
- 9780146001130
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
'Me a feminist?' She scoffed in 1910. 'I'll tell you what the suffragettes deserve: the whip and the harem'. COLETTE is an intriguing and flamboyant figure. Born in Burgundy in 1873 she moved to Paris at the age of twenty with her husband the writer and critic Henry Gauthiers-Viller (Willy). Forcing Colette to write, Willy published her novels in his name and the Claudine series became an instant success. She escaped her exploitative first husband to live by her pen and work in music-halls as a dancer. Colette had a lesbian love affair with a niece of Napoleon's, she married three times, had a baby at 40 and at 47, preferring 'passion to goodness', she seduced her teenage stepson. In the meantime she wrote stunning novels that were admired by Proust and Gide -- Gigi, Sido, Cheri, and Break of Day . Colette lived to be over 80. She was the first woman President of the Academie.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005503885
- Title
- Gigi
- Author
- Colette
- Format/Binding
- Unknown
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0146001133
- ISBN 13
- 9780146001130
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
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Terms of Sale
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