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A scandalously talented stage performer, a practiced seductressof both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of thegreatest works of twentieth-century literature, Colette was ourfirst true superstar. Now, in Judith Thurman's Secrets of theFlesh, Colette at last has a biography worthy of her dazzlingreputation.
Having spent her childhood in the shadow of anoverpowering mother, Colette escaped at age twenty into a turbulentmarriage with the sexy, unscrupulous Willy--a literary charlatanwho took credit for her bestselling Claudine novels. Weary ofWilly's sexual domination, Colette pursued an extremely publiclesbian love affair with a niece of Napoleon's. At forty, she gavebirth to a daughter who bored her, at forty-seven she seduced herteenage stepson, and in her seventies she flirted with the Nazioccupiers of Paris, even though her beloved third husband, a Jew,had been arrested by the Gestapo. And all the while, thisincomparable woman poured forth a torrent of masterpieces,including Gigi, Sido, Cheri, and Break of Day.
Having spent her childhood in the shadow of anoverpowering mother, Colette escaped at age twenty into a turbulentmarriage with the sexy, unscrupulous Willy--a literary charlatanwho took credit for her bestselling Claudine novels. Weary ofWilly's sexual domination, Colette pursued an extremely publiclesbian love affair with a niece of Napoleon's. At forty, she gavebirth to a daughter who bored her, at forty-seven she seduced herteenage stepson, and in her seventies she flirted with the Nazioccupiers of Paris, even though her beloved third husband, a Jew,had been arrested by the Gestapo. And all the while, thisincomparable woman poured forth a torrent of masterpieces,including Gigi, Sido, Cheri, and Break of Day.