Cheri and the Last of Cheri by Colette
After seeing the movie (starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend and Kathy Bates), we just had to read the book by the famous French author, Colette. Like most writers of her era, Colette knew how to use the turn of the phrase to evoke a response from the reader. And this book is full of the elegant language used in a far more civilized era. The improbable romance of a beautiful-but-aging Paris courtesan and her 30-years-younger lover, the bon vivant Chéri, is both heartwarming and tragic.
