Three Short Novels Gigi; Julia de Carneilhan; Chance Acquaintances
Colette; Senhouse, Roger and Fermor, Patrick Leigh (translation); Thurman, Judith (intro).
Place Published: New York:
Publisher: Farar, Straus, & Giroux,
Date Published: 2001.
Description: TRADE PAPERBACK. The book, in illustrated wrapper, is FINE/AS NEW (unread). 209 pages. Translated from the French by Roger Senhouse and Patrick Lee Fermor. Introduction by Judith Thurman. Wrapper notes read: "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 involves an invalid wife, her philandering husband, and a music hall dancer whose odd meeting at French spa affects and indelibly marks each of their lives." The story Gigi, was the basis for the play which starred a very young Audrey Hepburn and the amazing Vincent Minelli spectacle movie musical, Gigi, which starred Leslie Caron.
Binding: Trade PaperbackCondition: Fine in Wraps
ISBN: 0374527857
Book Id: 17050
Price: $12.00
