{"product_id":"9780374528010","title":"Cheri and The Last of Cheri","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eCheri and The Last of Cheri\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Colette\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChéri\u003c\/i\u003e, together with \u003ci\u003eThe Last of \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eChéri\u003c\/i\u003e, is a classic story of a love affair between a very young man and a charming older woman. The amour between Fred Peloux, the beautiful gigolo known as Chéri, and the courtesan Léa de Lonval tenderly depicts the devotion that stems from desire, and is an honest account of the most human preoccupations of youth and middle age. With compassionate insight Colette paints a full-length double portrait using an impressionistic style all her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Everything that Colette touched became human . . . She was a complete sensualist; but she gave herself up to her senses with such delicacy of perception, with such exquisiteness of physical pain as well as physical ecstasy, that she ennobled sensualism to grandeur.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eChéri \u003c\/i\u003eis her masterpiece.” —Michael Straight, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dramatic and moving . . . [\u003ci\u003eChéri\u003c\/i\u003e] endears itself to the reader partly because of its subject, but more because of the manner of its telling.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374528010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40654210203854,"sku":"9780374528010","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_4502ba5b-9fe6-4a7e-873b-0ff0b1f58421.jpg?v=1639361990","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374528010","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}