Cheri the Last of Cheri (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.ChŽri, together with The Last of ChŽri, is a classic story of a love affair between a very young man and a charming older woman. The amour between Fred Peloux, the beautiful gigolo known as ChŽri, and the courtesan LŽa de Lonval tenderly depicts the devotion that stems from desire, and is an honest account of the most human preoccupations of youth and middle age. With compassionate insight Colette paints a full-length double portrait using an impressionistic style all her own.