num_pages: 168
description: Colette began writing Break of Day in her early fifties, at Saint-Tropez on the Côte d'Azur, where she had bought a small house after the breakup of her second marriage. The novel's theme--the renunciation of love and the return to an independent existence supported and enriched by the beauty and peace of nature--grows out of Colette's own period of self-assessment in the middle of her life. A collection of subtle reflections about love and life, it is among her most thoughtful and stylistically bold works.
language: English
title: Break of Day
titlecomplete: Break of Day
genres: Classics, France, Feminism, Novels, Womens, 20th Century, Literature, French Literature, Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 688
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux