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008 | 190122s19741974nyu 000 1 eng d | ||
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_aPS3615.R59 _bI68 2010 |
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_aFIC COL _2 |
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_aColette _d(1873 - 1954) |
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245 | 1 | 4 |
_aRetreat from love _c/ Colette |
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_aNew York _b: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. _c, 1974 |
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_a226 p. _c; 22 cm. |
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520 | _aOne of the Claudine novels, this installment follows the sexual and emotional machinations of three upper-class youths in a remote farmhouse, where the protagonist of the series 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. | ||
546 | _aTranslated from the French to English | ||
651 | 4 |
_aFrance _v--Fiction |
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700 | 1 | _aCrosland, Margaret | |
942 | _cMO | ||
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