TY - BOOK AU - Colette TI - Chéri AV - PQ PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Young men -- Fiction KW - France -- Fiction KW - Courtesans -- Fiction KW - Middle-aged women -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A9ri_(novel); Release date is 2004-09-01; Produced by Anne Soulard, Nicole Apostola, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Chéri" by Colette is a novel published in 1920. It tells the story of an affair between Léa, a forty-nine-year-old retired courtesan, and Chéri, her lover of six years who is twenty-five. When Chéri prepares to marry a young woman his own age, both he and Léa must confront what their relationship truly means. Set against the backdrop of Parisian high society, this intimate portrait explores aging, desire, and the painful recognition of love discovered too late. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6484 ER -