COLETTE A TASTE - LIFE BY YVONNE MITCHELL (1ST ED.) IN SOUTH AFRICA

Hardcover/First Edition: "I cannot interest myself in anything that is not life" So wrote Colette, the great French novelist and this interest stayed with her into her last year when she died at 81 in 1954. Her fame was by then international. Her books earned her acclaim, her behaviours, celebrity, her three marriages both cruel and pain and ecstatic happiness. She lived through two wars and observed life as it changed from gaslit 1890's to modern times. Yvonne Mitchell with the help of more than eighty photographs, brings life here to a woman who was more of earth than of the world.