Secrets of the Flesh A Life of Colette

Name: Secrets of the Flesh A Life of Colette
Price: 2.61 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780345371034

ISBN-10: 0345371038

ISBN-13: 9780345371034

Edition: N/A

Authors: Judith Thurman

List price: $24.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

4 new & used from $2.61

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

A scandalously talented stage performer, a practiced seductress of both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature, Colette was our first true superstar. Now, in Judith Thurman's Secrets of the Flesh, Colette at last has a biography worthy of her dazzling reputation. Having spent her childhood in the shadow of an overpowering mother, Colette escaped at age twenty into a turbulent marriage with the sexy, unscrupulous Willy--a literary charlatan who took credit for her bestselling Claudine novels. Weary of Willy's sexual domination, Colette pursued an extremely public lesbian love affair with a niece of Napoleon's. At forty, she…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/31/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.56" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Introduction




















Notes and Sources


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index