An edition of Retraite sentimentale (1974)

Retreat from love

1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
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An edition of Retraite sentimentale (1974)

Retreat from love

1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
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In an isolated farmhouse in the Jura, Claudine awaits her husband Renaud's return from a Swiss sanatorium. She distracts herself by encouraging her young friend Annie to recount salacious episodes from her love life. When Renaud's homosexual son Marcel arrives, Claudine sets about matchmaking, a fiasco she bitterly regrets. With Renaud's death, Claudine's ennui is transmuted into resigned suffering. But she gradually allows the rhythm and beauty of the natural world to reawaken her desire to live.

Retreat From Love, first published in 1907, was the first of Colette's novels to be written without the collaboration of her husband 'Willy', from whom she had recently separated.

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English
Pages
226

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Retreat from love
2004, Peter Owen
in English - Paperback ed.
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Retreat from love
1995, P. Owen, Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions
in English
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Retreat from love
1983, Hamlyn Paperbacks
in English
Cover of: Retreat from love
Retreat from love
1980, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English - 1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
Cover of: Retreat from love
Retreat from love
1974, Owen
in English
Cover of: Retreat from love
Retreat from love
1974, Bobbs-Merrill
in English

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Edition Notes

Translation of La retraite sentimentale.
Reprint of the ed. published by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis.

Published in
New York
Series
A Harvest HBJ/book

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843/.9/12
Library of Congress
PQ2605.O28 R3613 1980

The Physical Object

Pagination
226 p. ;
Number of pages
226

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4415918M
Internet Archive
retreatfromlove00cole_1
ISBN 10
0156765888
LCCN
79019831
Library Thing
8194495
Goodreads
492240

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