- Published: 6 July 2001
- ISBN: 9780099422495
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $25.00
Claudine Married
- Published: 6 July 2001
- ISBN: 9780099422495
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $25.00
Her sensual prose style made her one of the great writers of twentieth-century France
New York Times Book Review
Her prose is rich, flawless, intricate, audacious and utterly beautiful
Raymond Mortimer, Vogue
This most French of all French writers . . . One thinks of her as the female voice of Paris . . . It's as if all the house fronts of Paris were cut away and we could see men and women talking, dressing, brooding, loving
New York Times
A perfectionist in her every word
Spectator
Everything that Colette touched became human
The Times
She has been compared to a 20th-century female Montaigne, and it is true that her books offer a manual on how to live fearlessly and joyfully – greedily alive to every sensation and experience
Guardian
Accessible and elusive; greedy and austere; courageous and timid; subversive and complacent; scorchingly honest and sublimely mendacious; an inspired consoler and an existential pessimist—these are the qualities of the artist and the woman. It is time to rediscover them
Judith Thurman, biographer of Colette