{"product_id":"secrets-of-the-flesh-book-judith-thurman-9780394588728","title":"Secrets of the Flesh","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dazzling biography of the French literary superstar Colette, who is also the subject of a major motion picture.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fine and intelligent biography of Colette, with her long tumultuous life and the great body of her work scrupulously considered and presented with style.--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e(Editors' Choice)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - WINNER OF THE \u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBOOK AWARD - NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaving spent her childhood in the shadow of an overpowering mother, Colette escaped at age twenty into a turbulent marriage with the sexy, unscrupulous Willy--a literary charlatan who took credit for her bestselling Claudine novels. Weary of Willy's sexual domination, Colette pursued an extremely public lesbian love affair with a niece of Napoleon's. At forty, she gave birth to a daughter who bored her, at forty-seven she seduced her teenage stepson, and in her seventies she contributed to the pro-Nazi press during the Occupation, even though her beloved third husband, a Jew, had been arrested by the Gestapo. And all the while, this incomparable woman poured forth a torrent of masterpieces, including \u003ci\u003eGigi, Sido, Cheri\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBreak of Day. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJudith Thurman, author of the National Book Award-winning biography of Isak Dinesen, portrays Colette as a thoroughly modern woman: frank in her desires, fierce in her passions, forever reinventing herself. Rich with delicious gossip and intimate revelations, shimmering with grace and intelligence, \u003ci\u003eSecrets of the Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the great biographies of our time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Colette] has been the subject of . . . a half-dozen significant biographies over the past thirty years. Yet this one by Judith Thurman will be hard to top. . . . Its prose is smoothly urbane, at times aphoristic, always captivating.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt will stand as literature in its own right.\u003cb\u003e--Richard Bernstein, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An] essential biography by a stylish writer of great sympathetic understanding and intellectual authority.\u003cb\u003e--Philip Roth\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49563088224529,"sku":"GOR006499545","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49588714471697,"sku":"GOR006916521","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49864339325201,"sku":"CIN039458872XG","price":4.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49940488683793,"sku":"CIN039458872XA","price":4.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50423114170641,"sku":"CIN039458872XVG","price":4.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52951645815057,"sku":"GOR012794968","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/039458872X.jpg?v=1750781779","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/secrets-of-the-flesh-book-judith-thurman-9780394588728","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}