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Break of Day
Break of Day
Author: Colette, Enid McLeod (Translator)
Colette began writing Break of Day in her early fifties, at Saint-Tropez on the Cote d'Azur, where she had bought a small house after the breakup 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 nature -- grows out of Colette's own p...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374528324
ISBN-10: 0374528322
Publication Date: 6/13/2002
Pages: 168
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3.5 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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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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An excellent review of Break of Day is available here:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/10/17/specials/colette-break.html


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