Cheri

By Colette

Book Overview

Widely considered the author's best work, this story of a love affair between Lea, a still-beautiful 49-year-old, and Cheri, selfish young man 30 years her junior, is a superb study of age and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 009942276X
• ISBN13: 9780099422761
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very classic, richly layered, and readable.

Cheri is a novel about a young Frenchman whose mistress, an older woman, indulges him and instructs him in the arts of love and life until he marries. Cheri is remarkably child-like right up to the eve of his marriage and beyond. After the marriage to a suitably aged young woman, he longs for his old mistress's pampering, her familiar apartments, and the life they shared there.I found the book a wonderful story and a rich, redolent escape from the realities of our modern world. It takes the reader back to a time just before WWI, when life moved a bit slower. The way Colette writes, slips the reader into a place easily imaginable; comfortable as one's own sofa.