{"product_id":"9780374527853","title":"Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances : Three Short Novels","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Colette\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps Colette's best-known work, \u003ci\u003eGigi \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned with success and money than with the desires of the heart. But Gigi is uninterested in the dishonest society life she observes all around her and remains exasperatingly Gigi. The tale of Gigi's success in spite of her anxious family is Colette at her liveliest and most entertaining. Written during the same period as \u003ci\u003eGigi\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJulie de Carneilhan\u003c\/i\u003e, based on Colette's last years with her second husband, focuses on a contest of wills between Julie, an elegant woman of forty, and her ex-husband. \u003ci\u003eChance Acquaintances\u003c\/i\u003e, a novella, involves an invalid wife, her philandering husband, and a music-hall dancer whose odd meeting at a French spa affects and indelibly marks each one of their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The paradoxes of great literature are those of human nature, and Colette is nothing if not human . . . Accessible and elusive; greedy and austere; courageous and timid; subversive and complacent; scorchingly honest and sublimely mendacious; an inspired consoler and an existential pessimist--these are the qualities of the artist and the woman. Its is time to rediscover them.” —\u003ci\u003eFrom the Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Colette is one of the glories of France.” —\u003ci\u003eMichael Straight, The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374527853\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40593510695118,"sku":"9780374527853","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_37df44a9-132a-4d48-b436-c2afda289d36.jpg?v=1637789428","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374527853","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}