Coming soon. The Vagabond
- Author: Colette
A mistress of metaphor and sparking detail, and with more punch than Proust ... Throughout this extraordinary – irreplaceable! – novel, Colette provides many exquisitely timed funny-sad turns...
Coming soon. The Vagabond
- Author: Colette
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A mistress of metaphor and sparking detail, and with more punch than Proust ... Throughout this extraordinary – irreplaceable! – novel, Colette provides many exquisitely timed funny-sad turns...
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Colette's subversive and witty tale of a woman's bid for freedom in Belle Époque France, in a fresh new Penguin Classics translation
‘It’s definitely me there, covered in purple rouge, eyes ringed with a halo of blue greasepaint that’s beginning to melt’
Renée, aged thirty-three and divorced from her serially unfaithful husband, reinvents herself as a dancer and mime artist in France’s music halls. When a wealthy suitor appears promising marriage and stability, Renée must choose between the security he represents and her hard-won life as an artist. Colette’s subversive novel of the stage was based on her experiences as a struggling music hall performer following her own divorce. By turns melancholy and funny, it is a pioneering work of autofiction and a vivid portrayal of one woman’s pursuit of freedom.
‘The story of a soul’s quest for liberation’ Erica Jong
Translated with an Introduction by Belinda Jack
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A mistress of metaphor and sparking detail, and with more punch than Proust ... Throughout this extraordinary – irreplaceable! – novel, Colette provides many exquisitely timed funny-sad turns ... And no one writes about relationships as perceptively as Colette
An enchanting, sincere and beautifully constructed novel
