description: In an isolated farmhouse in the Jura , Claudine awaits her husband Renaud's return from a Swiss sanatorium. She distracts herself by encouraging her young friend Annie to recount salacious episodes from her love life. When Renaud's homosexual son Marcel arrives, Claudine sets about matchmaking, that results in a fiasco she bitterly regrets.
language: English
title: Retreat from Love
titlecomplete: Retreat from Love
genres: Fiction, France, French Literature, Literature, Classics, Contemporary, 20th Century
ratings_count: 303
places: France
series: Claudine
publisher: Bookthrift Co