Author: Sidonie Garbrielle Colette. Translated by Antonia White. Published by The Noonday Press, New York, NY., 1963, 1st Edition. (1st USA Edition 1976) Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with mild sun-aged cover. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8 x 5.5 inch, 224 pages.
THE SHACKLE, by Colette, is the tale of Renee Nere, who after having given up her music-hall career to sort out the strands of her life, enters into an affair with a younger man which both satisfies and constrains.
"After retiring from the stage, 36 year old Renee finds herself a friendless 'old maid'. She is neither rich nor poor, ugly nor beautiful, just someone who is accustomed to picking up and moving to a new city and hotel with no one to meet her there. She falls in with a group in Nice that consists of a pretty young woman, the lover who beats her and his opium-addicted weirdo friend. When the young lover begins paying attention to Renee she tries to resist but he arouses the long-dormant need to belong." -Reviewed by mstrust on Library Thing.
