num_pages: 224
description: Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Renée Néré has begun a new life on her own, supporting herself as a music-hall artist. Maxime, a rich and idle bachelor, intrudes on her independent existence and offers his love and the comforts of marriage. A provincial tour puts distance between them and enables Renée, in a moving series of letters and meditations, to resolve alone the struggle between her need to be loved, and her need to have a life and work of her own.
language: English
title: The Vagabond
titlecomplete: The Vagabond
characters: Renée Néré, Maxime Dufferein-Chautel
genres: 20th Century, French Literature, Novels, Womens, Literature, Classics, Feminism, Romance, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 3434
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux