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Break of Day
Break of Day
Author: Colette
Certainly one of Colette's most poetic and revelatory books. She began writing it in her early 50s at San Tropez on the Cote d'Azur where she had bought a small house after the break up of her second marriage. The novel's theme, the renunciation of love and the return to an independent existence supported and enriched by the beauty and peace of...  more »
ISBN: 477267
Publication Date: 1961
Pages: 143
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Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
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I had hoped for something like Sido's House or even vagabond...not at all..It sounds/reads to me as if she decided to sit and wait for death to take her...its written well, but...I didn't enjoy it.
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