The Shackle Author:Sidonie-Gabriel Colette Having given up her music-hall career to sort out the strands of her life, Renee Nere enters into an affair with a younger man which both satisfies and constrains — In Colette's sequel to THE VAGABOND, it is three years later, and Ren?e Nere has left the music hall and is living frugally on an inheritance. She wants to write, as she did years ago... more », but before she can fulfill her dream she falls in love once again, becoming the mistress of a man named Jean. In taking on this role, Ren?e realizes that he will claim all her energies, and resigns herself to the "shackle" that love represents. The opposite in many ways of Colette's earlier, fiercely feminist novel, THE SHACKLE is a poignant and romantic story of the power of love to shape a life.« less