Colette biography amazon

Is French author Colette someone worth knowing about in vivid detail? Before you read a book like this, if you are not a fast reader, this is a question well worth asking. Many people will not know or care who she was--a French author whose novels and novellas and short stories feed from her somewhat disordered personal life but which nonetheless show a strong degree of interest in the thinking and psychology of women in dysfunctional relationships.

If you do know or care who she was, this is a biography that offers a lot of information and a generally sympathetic viewpoint, albeit one that points out the failings that Colette had as a mother in the tragic damage that her daughter suffered as a result of what she saw and experienced growing up around such a woman as the book's subject was.

Obviously the author's approach would be politically correct in our own particular time but it represents a fair-minded view of someone who was a talented and frequently p