Retreat from love
By: by Colette; translated from the French and with an introduction by Margaret Crosland.
Publisher: Owen
Published: 1974
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: France -- Fiction.
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, a fiasco she bitterly regrets.
Notes: Translation of La retraite sentimentale. Paris : Mercure de France, 1907.