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A scandalously talented stage performer, a used seductress of both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of the greatest works of 20th-century books, Colette was our first true superstar. Now, in Judith Thurman's Secrets of the Flesh, Colette at last has a biography worth her amazing reputation. Having spent her child years in the darkness of any overpowering mother, Colette escaped at get older 20 into a turbulent matrimony with the alluring, unscrupulous Willy - a literary charlatan who had taken credit for her best-selling Claudine novels. Weary of Willy's intimate domination, Colette pursued an extremely public lesbian love affair with a niece of Napoleon's. At 40 she offered labor and birth to a daughter who weary her, at 47 she seduced her teenage stepson, and in her 70s she flirted with the Nazi occupiers of Paris, even though her loved third partner, a Jew, have been imprisoned by the Gestapo. And even while, this incomparable girl poured forth a torrent of masterpieces, including Gigi, Sido, Cheri, and Rest of Day. Judith Thurman, author of the National E book Award-winning biography of Isak Dinesen, portrays Colette as a carefully modern girl: frank in her wants, fierce in her passions, permanently reinventing herself. High with delicious gossip and seductive revelations, shimmering with elegance and intellect, Secrets of the Flesh is one of the great biographies in our time.

Category: French