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050 0 0 _aPS3615.R59
_bI68 2010
082 1 _aFIC COL
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100 1 _aColette
_d(1873 - 1954)
245 1 4 _aRetreat from love
_c/ Colette
260 _aNew York
_b: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
_c, 1974
300 _a226 p.
_c; 22 cm.
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
700 1 _aCrosland, Margaret
942 _cMO
999 _c248573
_d248573